Alexander Graham Bell : making connections / Naomi Pasachoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pasachoff, Naomi E., author.

Series:

Oxford Portraits in Science

Oxford portraits in science Alexander Graham Bell

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922.

Bell, Alexander Graham.

Inventors--United States--Biography.

Inventors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [1996]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines the personality as well as the thought processes which led this inventor to his discoveries which have helped our understanding of the natural world.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Chapter 1. "A Preparation for Scientific Work

Sidebar: Electromagnetism: The Scientific Principle Underlying the Telephone

Chapter 2. "Great Discoveries and Inventions. . . Arise from the Observation of Little Things

Sidebar: Sound, Speech, and Hearing

Chapter 3. "Onward Irresistibly in the Direction of the Telephone

Sidebar: How a Telephone Works

Chapter 4. "A Target for the World to Shoot At

Chapter 5. "Science. . . The Highest of All Things

Sidebar: The "Photophone," Fiber Optics, and Wireless Telephones

Chapter 6. "My Life Work. . . The Teaching of Speech to the Deaf

Chapter 7. "The Age of the Flying Machine Was at Hand

Chapter 8. "I Want Many More Years of Life to Finish It All

Chronology

Further Reading

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

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K

L

M

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V

W.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-977191-X

1-280-60581-2

9786610605811

1-4294-6217-5

OCLC:

46761248