Reluctant Genius (63 page)

without telephone, 252

work habits, 43, 114, 177, 201, 204-5, 251,
253-54, 308, 319-20, 368, 387-89

world tour, 392-94

personal life: health

anemia, 418

breathlessness, 414

depression, 15

diabetes, 414

general, 17, 44~45, 71, 190-91, 191-92,
223, 233-34, 296, 414-15, 418-19

headaches, 12, 15, 18, 20, 44, 114, 155, 223,
251, 252, 261, 414

insomnia, 15, 223, 414

sciatica, 223

sensitivity to light, 114, 315, 414

tuberculosis, 414

weight, 20, 177, 381, 414-15

personal life: homes

in Boston, 43-44, 153, 154

in Edinburgh, 1, 6

in London, 16, 175, 176

in Nova Scotia, 244-45, 246, 293, 294-95,
305, 312-18

in Salem, MA, 46

Tutelo Heights, 22-23, 28

in Washington, 202, 205, 217, 227, 248-49,
252, 258

Bell and the deaf

American Association to Promote the
Teaching of Speech to the Deaf
(AAPTSD), 285, 394

communication with mother, 3, 8

versus Edward Gallaudet, 281-88

founds school for the deaf, 230, 234

lectures and public demonstrations, 36-37,
233, 276

papers on deafness, 229, 286, 306

as professor, 45-46, 76

research, 229, 297-98 sign language, 39

as teacher of the deaf, 17, 33, 34-37, 38-40,
118-19, 125, 134, 185-86, 269

as teacher of the deaf, private, 36, 43-44,
46-49

as teacher of Visible Speech teachers, 118

views on deaf education, 47-48, 274, 276, 281-88

Visible Speech, promotion of, 13-14,
36-37, 138, 216, 230

Volta Review,
346

on world tour, 393

Bell as inventor and scientist

ailerons, 373, 374

Arctic expedition proposal, 209

awards and honors, 215, 221, 269, 346,
417-18

Bell Telephone Company, 160, 162-63,
165, 180, 194, 215

call-bell system, 183

cats, landing on feet, 342

census tabulation, 346

deafness, study of, 229, 273-74

desalination, 346, 416

ear phonautograph, 72, 73-74, 75

flying machines (general), 85, 171, 310-12,
319-20, 323-24, 327-28, 365-67

Bell as inventor and scientist (continued)

glass tubes, for soup, 333

gliders, 371-73, 391-92

grain husker, 11

graphophone, 353, 430

helicopter-like devices, 311-12, 319, 323

hydrofoils, 392, 403-5, 406, 407-8, 409-13,
411-12, 431

induction balance, 228

kites, 338-40, 354-55, 357-6o, 366, 369-71,
376, 392, 394, 431

"Laboratory Notes," 201, 308

mathematical understanding, 254, 328

metal detector, 218-21, 309

multiple telegraph, 43, 44, 70-73, 75,
78-80, 83-88, 90-91, 102

National Geographic Magazine,
336-37,
340, 353, 363

National Geographic Society, 346, 394

as non-entrepreneurial, 134,185-86, 212-13,
254, 257,411

other ideas, 85, 171, 204, 254, 308, 309,
386-87, 405, 416

patent disputes, 189-90, 192, 195, 196-97,
199-200, 201, 248, 252

patents, 86, 121, 122, 152-53, 180, 183,
184-85, 228, 256, 257, 353-54, 410-11,
430-31, 433-34

Philadelphia Exhibition, 133-39,150-51, 153

phonautograph.
See
ear phonautograph

phonograph, 204, 223, 228, 309, 353

photography, 11-12, 308-9, 323

photophone, 204-5, 209-10, 211-13, 254,
430

predictions, 124-25, 157, 211-12, 231,
309, 323

pronunciation, 397

public demonstrations and lectures, 129-
30, 133-39, 148-50, 155-6P, 169, 172,
180, 184, 215, 347, 391, 399-401, 411-12

royal demonstration, 180-82

rumors and allegations, 194, 201, 233

safety, 373

sheep breeding, 297-98, 304, 305, 307,
394, 415, 418

 and Smithsonian Institution, 346, 348-51

speaking machine, 1-2, 74

spectrophone, 213

speed boat, 394, 412

subscription forms, 337

talking dog, 16

telegraph, 28-29, 147-50
(see also
multiple
telegraph)

telephone, 73-75, 85, 87-88, 91-94, 117-18,
121-24, 129-30, 152-53, 153, 180, 183,
185-86, 254

telephone switchboard, 323

tetrahedral cells, 353-54, 430

thoughts on experimentation, 372

thought transference, 254

tower, tetrahedral, 361-63

vacuum jacket, 223, 228, 333

vibration-measuring instruments, 14

wartime, 406, 407-8

water heater, 309

X-rays, 333-34

Bell, Alexander (grandfather), 3-4, 12, 14

Bell, Carrie Ottoway, 25, 33

Bell, Charlie, 209, 214, 215, 216, 260, 302, 425

Bell, Chichester (Chester), 228

Bell, David, 112, 148, 149, 150, 215

Bell, Edward (son of Alec and Mabel),
222-23, 224

Bell, Edward (son of Melly), 17

Bell, Edward (Ted), 5-6, 14-15, 16, 24,
222-23

Bell, Eliza

deafness, 3, 8, 44, 128

death, 335

and deaths of sons, 18, 24

and Mabel, 111-13, 128, 164, 191

marriage, 5

as mother, 7, 15, 18, 33, 72, 75, 79, 80, 215

moves, 31-32, 215

in Nova Scotia, 302, 315

as painter, 5-6

at Tutelo Heights, 24

Bell, Elsie May

appearance, 223-24

birth and childhood, 183-84, 186, 223-24,
225, 240, 242, 245, 249, 278-79

character, 328-29

courtship and marriage, 337-38, 343, 345

health, 300-302, 304, 307

and Mabels deafness, 280

in Nova Scotia, 278-79

in shipwreck, 240, 242

travels, 308, 318, 335, 345, 419

in Washington, 328, 329, 331

Bell, Gracie, 232, 302, 303

Bell, Helen, 232, 302, 303

Bell, Lily, 148, 406

Bell, Mabel Hubbard

and AEA, 361, 366, 368-69, 377, 379, 411,
430

and Alec’s inventing career, 120, 125,
134-35, 150-51, 154, 159, 190, 195, 359,
361, 366, 410-11

as Alec’s student, 48-49, 67, 69-70, 76, 90,
127

appearance and dress, 89, 162, 243-44,
304, 382, 402

and Bell Telephone Company, 162-63

 birth, 54

in Boston, 68-70

in Cambridge, MA, 60

character, 104-5, 110, 114, 330, 361, 431

childhood, 51-52, 54-67

communication, 57-58, 61-62, 63, 66, 128,
173, 282, 397-98, 402-3, 423

courtship and marriage, 101-2, 103-5,
109-10, 115, 119-20, 152, 161-63

deafness, 55, 63-64, 65-66, 97, 125-26,
127-28, 128, 224, 264, 279-81, 282, 299,
304, 431

death, funeral, and gravesite, 424-25

and deaths of family, 224, 232, 264, 334-35,
383-84, 420-21, 422, 423, 424, 431

education, 59-61, 64-65

and Edward Gallaudet, 284-85, 287

in Europe, 63-66, 216, 223, 225-26, 307-8,
318-19, 345-46, 348-50

finances, 162-63,203,369,377,384-85,423

as grandmother, 382-83, 385

health, 55

and Helen Keller, 277-78, 280

as hostess, 178-79

house fire, 248-49, 252

as housekeeper, 175-76, 177, 184, 384

in hydrofoil, 410

in Japan, 335

in London, 173, 174-80, 186

before Massachusetts legislature, 61-62

and Montessori education, 396

as mother, 184, 223-25, 244, 300-302, 328,
351, 352

in Nova Scotia, 237, 238, 243-47, 265, 294,
299-300, 304-6, 313, 314, 315, 402-3,
423

photographs of, 431

photography, 323, 360

political opinions, 152

pregnancy and childbirth, 173-75, 183,
210, 218, 222, 231-32

in Quebec, 188-90

reading, 60

relationship with Alec, 114-16, 120, 126-27,
151, 179, 194, 230-31, 260-65, 402-3

religion, 98, 151, 225

in Scotland, 167-72

sea travel, 165-66

sheep, 415, 423

shipwreck, 240, 242

sight, 423

at Tutelo Heights, 163-65

walking with Alec, 69, 257

in wartime, 409

in Washington, 207-8, 215, 260, 264, 287,
314, 330-31, 397

in western US, 152

world tour, 392-94

Bell, Marian Hubbard (Daisy), 249, 374, 396

appearance, 224

birth and childhood, 210, 278-79

character, 329, 353

courtship and marriage, 353

at glider flight, 374, 375

and Mabels deafness, 280

in New York City, 351-53

in Nova Scotia, 304, 305

shipwreck, 240, 242

travels, 308, 318, 329, 335, 345~46

in Washington, 329

Bell, Melville

appearance, 1, 356-57

in Boston, 163

character, 215

and deaf education, 17, 32

death, 357

as father, 1-2, 8, 15, 17, 18, 44-45, 111, 113

health, 4, 355-57

lectures and public demonstrations, 13-14,
31, 32

marriages, 5, 355

moves, 18-19, 215

and Newfoundland, 4, 236-37, 239, 242

in Nova Scotia, 302, 315-18, 355-57

as professor of elocution, 3-4, 5, 8, 31

as reader, 5

religion, 5

shipwreck, 240

and telegraph, 72

and telephone, 150, 165

Tutelo Heights, 22, 24

and Visible Speech, 8-10, 13-14, 17, 18, 32,
36, 39-40, 45, 75, 79

Bell, Melville (Melly), 1-2, 5-6, 12-13, 17-18,
74

Bell, Robert, 232, 264

Bell-Baldwin Hydrodromes Ltd., 413

Bell Corporation, 430-31

Belleville, ON, 24

Bell Laboratories, 430

bells, electric, 165-66

Bells Boys.
See
Aerial Experiment
Association (AEA)

Bell Telephone Company

British Bell, 169, 172-73, 180, 182, 183,
184,187

at death of Alec Bell, 423

finances and shares, 162-63,
^x
93,
^x
94, 202,
203

International Telephone Company, 213, 215