Alexander Graham Bell

PART OF:: 30 Portrait etchings of eminent people in telecommunications

Made:: 1955-1964

maker:: International Telecommunication Union

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Alexander Graham Bell
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print. etching. Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 / A Delzers ; from copyright photograph by Harris & Ewing Washington DC. - n.d. [1955-1964] [Men in telecommunications] International Telecommunication Union 23x19cm. -Portrait. HL to L. Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922, devised apparatus for transmitting sound by electricity, the telephone, invented photophone- transmission of sound on a beam of light- a precursor of today's optical fiber systems, medical researcher, invented techniques for teaching speech to the deaf.

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Category:: Art

Object Number:: 1982-1382/4

type:: print, etching and portrait

credit:: Science Museum Library

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