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2 unusual facts about Graham Bell


Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), inventor best known for inventing the telephone

Oki Kibatarō

In 1877, only a year after Graham Bell's invention, Kōbushō had started an effort to make telephone receivers by reverse engineering and Oki was in the team that came up with the first prototype.


178P/Hug–Bell

It was discovered by Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomers' League members Gary Hug and Graham Bell and is thought to be the first periodic comet to be discovered by amateurs.

Oki Electric Industry

In 1877, only a year after Graham Bell's invention, Kubusho had started an effort to make telephone receivers by reverse engineering and Oki was in the team that came up with the first prototype.


see also

Bell Laboratory

Bell Laboratory, also known as the Volta Laboratory and the Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, created in Washington, D.C. by Alexander Graham Bell in 1880.

Bell Oionus I

The Oionus I had its origins in March 1909 with the dissolution of the AEA, when Alexander Graham Bell hired both Frederick W. "Casey" Baldwin as an engineer and J.A.D. McCurdy as assistant engineer to build the last of Bell's designs.

Bjarni Tryggvason

On February 22, 2009, he piloted a replica of Alexander Graham Bell's Silver Dart, from the ice on Baddeck Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

Geoffrey de Freitas

Two years at Yale followed, with a Mellon Fellowship in international law, and in 1936 on the voyage home he met his future wife, Helen Graham Bell, a Bryn Mawr graduate and daughter of Laird Bell, a prominent Chicago lawyer and Democrat.

Nova Scotia Highway 105

In 2010, the provincial government named the entire highway Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell Way in honour of Mabel Gardiner Hubbard and her husband Alexander Graham Bell, who resided and are buried at Beinn Bhreagh near Baddeck.

Robert V. Bruce

In April 1998, Bruce accused Scottish historian James A. Mackay of plagiarizing his book Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and The Conquest of Solitude, even as Mackay acknowledged Bruce on page 12 of his book.

Ski Sunday

The 2009 series began on 10 January with a special preview programme presented by Graham Bell covering a summer trek in the Alps.

The Telephone Cases

Western Union advocated several more recent patent claims of Daniel Drawbaugh, Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci and Philip Reis in a bid to invalidate Alexander Graham Bell's master and subsidiary telephone patents dating back to March 1876.

Thomas Sanders

See Bell Telephone Company for Thomas Sanders (U.S. businessman), Alexander Graham Bell's first sponsor and partner in Cambridge/Boston, and the father of one of Bell's students