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In 1885, nine years after his invention of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell and his wife, Mabel, paid a weekend visit to Baddeck on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. There they fell in love with the landscape, and soon returned to build the house and laboratory where Bell would spend his summers for the next thirty-seven years. Bell never ceased inventing, exploring, discovering. At Baddeck he experimented in many fields, including the development, with Casey Baldwin, of a successful hydrofoil. Less successful but equally spectacular were his efforts to get an aircraft constructed with tetrahedral cells in the wings oof the ground under its own power. Energetic, exuberant, occasionally a trifle eccentric, Bell is remembered with affection by friends and neighbors in Baddeck who knew him well and worked with him in the laboratory. |
| Dorothy Harley Eber learned of Bell's life there when she established her own summer residence across the bay from his old home and came to know some of the same neighbors. In the course of many conversations, she recorded their reminiscences not only of Bell but of a busy household that often included children and grandchildren, Bell's father and stepmother, and famous visitors - among them Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan Macy and Sir Wilfred Grenfell. Equally fascinating are the illustrations, for Bell always had photographers at hand to document his work, and members of the family became talented camera amateurs, too. Many of the photographs have never been published before. |
| A STUDIO BOOK, The Viking Press, New York, 1982 ISBN 0-670-27389-9 (Hardcover) $16.95 |
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