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Journal of Heredity Advance Access originally published online on December 23, 2004
Journal of Heredity 2005 96(1):1-3; doi:10.1093/jhered/esi007
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© 2005 The American Genetic Association

Perspective

The Bell Family Legacies

W. D. Stansfield

Address correspondence to W.D. Stansfield, 653 Stanford Drive, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405-1123, or e-mail: wstansfi@calpoly.edu.

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Before he became a famous inventor, Alexander Graham Bell opened a school for the deaf in Boston in 1872. He always thought that his main mission in life, and his greatest pleasure, was in teaching the deaf. Royalties from his telegraph and telephone patents allowed him to pursue this mission and make other contributions and discoveries. In 1880 the French government awarded him the Volta prize of 50,000 francs, which was used to help establish the Volta Laboratory for research, invention, and work for the deaf. Bell founded and financed the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf in 1890.

Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847, the same day and month as his grandfather in 1790. His mother had been deaf from an early age. He attended the University of Edinburgh and the University of London in 1868 without earning a university . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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