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The 1939 film The Story of Alexander Graham Bell was based on his life and works. [233] The 1965 BBC miniseries Alexander Graham Bell starring Alec McCowen and Francesca Annis. The 1992 film The Sound and the Silence was a TV film. Biography aired an episode Alexander Graham Bell: Voice of Invention on August 6, 1996.
The Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships for Masters and Doctoral studies in engineering and the natural sciences is awarded annually by Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Ottawa, Ontario (note the double usage of "Bell" in the award name);
The Volta's research was later absorbed into the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (now also known as the 'AG Bell') upon its creation when the Volta Bureau merged with the AAPTSD in 1908, with Bell's financial support. [46] The AAPTSD was renamed as the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf in 1956.
Photomechanical effect is the change in the shape of a material when it is exposed to light.This effect was first documented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1880. [1] More recently, Kenji Uchino demonstrated that a photostrictive material could be used for legs in the construction of a miniature optically-powered "walker".
Edwin S. Grosvenor is a writer, photographer, and President and Editor-in-Chief of American Heritage. [1] He has published nine books and is best known for writing on his great-grandfather, Alexander Graham Bell, including two books and several magazine articles.
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Charles Sumner Tainter (April 25, 1854 – April 20, 1940) was an American scientific instrument maker, engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, Alexander's father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, and for his significant improvements to Thomas Edison's phonograph, resulting in the Graphophone, one version of which was the first Dictaphone.
Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude (1973) ISBN 9780316112512; Alexander Graham Bell: Teacher of the Deaf (1974) Lincoln and the Riddle of Death (1981) The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 (1987) ISBN 9780394553948 (Pulitzer Prize for History winner) [5] Bruce, Robert; Boritt, Gabor (1988).