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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 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.
Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone at Boston University 688 Boylston Street in Boston, the early home of the College of Liberal Arts, the precursor to Boston University College of Arts and Sciences Helen Magill White, who, in 1877, was the first woman to receive a PhD from an American university
Two years later Alexander Graham Bell would receive the patent. Dolbear's work in Tufts was later continued by Marconi and Tesla . [ 21 ] Other famous scholars include William Leslie Hooper who in addition to serving as acting president, designed the first slotted armature for dynamos.
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.
This list of notable Howard University people (alumni sometimes known as Bison), includes faculty, staff, graduates, honorary graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of the American Howard University, a private, coeducational, nonsectarian historically black university, [1] located in Washington, D.C. [2]
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.
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).