Unpublished Sources

Journals of Alexander Graham Bell

A.E.A. Bulletin, vols. 1-41, 1907-09.

Beinn Bhreagh Recorder, vols. 1-25, 1909-23.

Experimental Notebooks, vols. 1-4, 1875-77.

Home Notes, vols. 1-135.

Laboratory Notes, vols. 1-37.

Interviews by the Authors

Walter Aydelotte, Robert V. Bruce, Peg Chronister, Mary Dunlop, Alexander Graham Bell Fairchild, Bernard S. Finn, Claude Fischer, Mabel H. Grosvenor, Melville Bell Grosvenor, Bruce Kelley, Aynsley McFarlane, James McKillop, Judith Moyer, Carol Grosvenor Myers, Charles Pleasance, Eliot Sivowitz, Gertrude Tyne, James G. Watson.

Oral History Transcripts and Speeches Relating to Bell (at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historical Site)

Grosvenor, Elsie May Bell. “Address to the Eistophos Club.” Letterbook. 175, 104-11.

 - - - - . “Speech to the 25th anniversary of the Telephone Pioneers of America.” Nov. 19, 1936.

 - - - - . “Speech at the Unveiling of the Statue of AGB in the Hall of Fame of Great Americans, NYU.” May 24, 1951.

Grosvenor, Melville Bell. “Life with Grandfather, I, II & III.” Unpublished lectures.

Jones, Lilian Grosvenor. “One Pioneer Who Changed the World.” Unpublished address before the National Assembly of the Telephone Pioneers of America, Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 16, 1968.

 - - - - . “The Bells of Washington.” Address before the Alexander Graham Bell Chapter of the Telephone Pioneers of America, Washington, D.C., June 14, 1969.

Selfridge, Lieut. Thomas. “Diary of Summer of 1907.”

Other Archival Sources

Bell, Mabel Hubbard. “The Beinn Bhreagh Estate.” Typewritten history in Beinn Bhreagh Recorder. 15 (Feb. 24, 1914), 125-38.

 - - - - . “The Origin of Montessori Educational Association.” Typewritten history in Beinn Bhreagh Recorder. 13 (July 24, 1913) 207-19, 224-25.

 - - - - . “Summary of the Aerial Experiment Association.” Letterbook. 64.

Bethune, Norman. Untitled written recollections, n.d.

Fairchild, Daisy Bell. Untitled written recollections, n.d.

Grosvenor, Elsie May Bell. “Memories of My Father.” Letterbook. 175 (Feb. 25, 1947) 81-85.

Grosvenor, Gilbert. “Biography of Alexander Graham Bell for the Press Association Compilers.” March 24, 1925.

Grosvenor, Gilbert H. Transcripts of talks with Allan C. Fisher, Jr., Baddeck, N.S. (Aug. 1962).

G. H. Grosvenor Collection, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.

Howard, O. “Recollections - Wednesday Evening Gatherings,” Beinn Bhreagh Recorder 9, 413 and 455.

Jones, Lilian Grosvenor. Untitled written recollections.

Thompson, Charles. Untitled written recollections.

Dissertations and Theses

Grosvenor, Edwin S. “The Founding of the National Geographic Society.” Columbia University, 1975.

Published Sources

Articles, Essays, and Speeches by Alexander Graham Bell

“Address on the Occasion of the Presentation of the Langley Medal and the Unveiling of the Langley Memorial Tablet, May 6, 1913.” Letterbook. 2, 109.

“Aerial Locomotion.” Proceedings of the Washington

Academy of Sciences. 8 (March 4, 1907), 407-48.

“Aërial Locomotion: With a Few Notes on Progress in the Construction of an Aërodrome.” National Geographic. (Jan. 1907), 1-34.

“Artificial Respiration.” Dictated Aug. 3, 1891, and printed in the Beinn Bhreagh Recorder, 4 (April 14, 1910).

“Auto-Education Continued in the Primary School.” The Volta Review (April 1916).

“Discovery and Invention.” National Geographic. (June 1914), 649-55.

“Experiments in Mechanical Flight.” Nature. (May 28, 1896).

“A Few Notes of Progress in the Construction of an Aerodrome.” In Aero Club of America. Navigating the Air. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907.

“Prehistoric Telephone Days.” National Geographic. (March 1922), 223-41.

“Preparedness for Aerial Defense.” Address to the National Convention of the Navy League of the U.S., April 10, 1916.

Pamphlet published by the Navy League, included in Beinn Bhreagh Recorder. 10 (Sept. 6, 1916).

“Prizes for the Inventor: Some of the Problems Awaiting Solution.” Address to the graduating class of McKinley School, Feb. 1,1917. Reprinted in National Geographic. (Feb. 1917), 131-46.

“The Results of Some Experiments in Connection with ‘Visible Speech’ Made in Elgin in November 1865.” Handwritten report given to Melville Bell. Letterbook. 39, 3-14.

“Simple Experiments.” The Volta Review. (July and Sept. 1914).

“A Successful Trial of the Aerodrome.” Science. (May 22, 1896).

“The Tetrahedral Principle in Kite Structure.” National Geographic. 14 (June 1903), 219-51.

“Upon the Electrical Experiments to Determine the Location of the Bullet in the Body of the Late President Garfield; and upon A Successful Form of Induction Balance for the Painless Detection of Metallic Masses in the Human Body.” American Journal of Science. 23 (Jan. 1882).

Books

Aero Club of America. Navigating the Air: A Scientific Statement of the Progress of Aeronautical Science up to the Present Time. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907.

American Bell Telephone Co. The Bell Telephone: The Deposition of Alexander Graham Bell in the Suit Brought by the United States to Annul the Bell Patents. Boston: AT&T, 1908.

American Telephone Journal. Various articles. New York and Chicago: (March 17, 1906) 180; (June 9, 1906) 377-80; (June 30, 1906) 442; (June 30, 1906) 444; (June 30, 1906) 451; (July 14, 1906) 25; (July՛21, 1906) 37; (July 28, 1906) 49, 54, 55, 59; (Sept. 1, 1906) 138; (Sept. 22, 1906) 186; (Oct. 6, 1906) 226, 288; (Nov. 1906)340,342.

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Baldwin, Neil. Edison: Inventing the Century. New York: Hyperion, 1995.

Bell, Alexander Graham. Lectures Upon the Mechanism of Speech. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1906.

Bell, David Charles, and Alexander Melville Bell. Bell’s Standard Elocutionist: Principles and Exercises. William Mullan, 1881.

Boettinger, H. M. The Telephone Book: Bell, Watson, Vail and American Life, 1878-1976. Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Riverwood Publishers, 1975.

Brooks, John. Telephone: The First Hundred Years: The Wondrous Invention that Changed a World and Spawned a Corporate Giant. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

Bruce, Robert V. Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973.

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Butterworth, W E. Hi-Fi: From Edison’s Phonograph to Quadraphonic Sound. New York: Four Winds Press, 1977.

Carneal, Georgette. A Conqueror of Space: The Life of Lee de Forest. New York: Horace Liveright, 1930.

Casson, Herbert N. The History of the Telephone. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1910.

Chernow, Ron. The House of Morgan. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.

City of Boston. Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, 1871. Boston: Rockwell & Churchill, 1872.

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Crouch, Tom. The Bishop’s Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright. New York: WW. Norton, 1989.

Curry, Dr. S. S. Alexander Melville Bell: Some Memories, with Fragments from a Pupil’s NoteBook. Cambridge, Mass.: The University Press, 1906.

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Dolbear, Amos E. The Telephone: An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1877.

Dummer, G. W. A. Electronic Inventions and Discoveries. New York: Pergamon Press, 1978.

Eber, Dorothy Harley. Genius at Work: Images of Alexander Graham Bell. New York: The Viking Press, 1982.

Fagen, M. D., ed., A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System: 1875-1925. Prepared by Members of the Technical Staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories. Murray Hill, N.J.: Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1975.

Fairchild, David. The World Was My Garden. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938.

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Field, Henry M. The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1893.

__________. The Story of the Electric Telegraph. New York: Charles Scribner & Sons, 1892.

Fischer, Claude S. America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Green, H. Gordon. The Silver Dart. Fredericton, N. B.: Brunswick Press, 1959.

Grosvenor, Edwin S. Try It! The Alexander Graham Bell Science Kit Experiment Book. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1992.

Hackenburg, Herbert T., Jr. Muttering Machines to Laser Beams: A History of Mountain Bell. Denver: Mountain Bell, 1986.

Hibbard, Angus. Hello Goodbye: My Story of Telephone Pioneering. Boston: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1941.

Hilton, Suzanne. Here Today and Gone Tomorrow: The Story of World’s Fairs and Expositions. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1978.

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Howard, Fred. Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987.

Hubbard, Harlan Page. One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, 866 to 1895. New York: G. W. Rogers & Co., 1895.

Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903.

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Kingsbury, J[ohn] E. The Telephone and Telephone Exchanges: Their Invention and Development. New York: Arno Press, 1972.

Kramer, Rita. Maria Montessori: A Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Latzke, Paul. A Fight With An Octopus. Chicago: The Telephone Publishing Company, 1906.

Lawton, Thomas, and Linda Merrill. Freer: A legacy in Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993.

Lewis, Tom. Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

Lyon, Peter. Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1963.

MacKenzie, Catherine. Alexander Graham Bell: The Man who Contracted Space. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928.

MacMeal, Harry B. The Story of Independent Telephony. Chicago: The John F. Cuneo Company, 1934.

Marland, E. A. Early Electrical Communication. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1964.

McKelvey, Blake. Rochester: The Flower City 1855-1890. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1949.

Means, James. The Aeronautical Annual. Boston: W.B. Clarke & Co., 1897.

Milberry, Larry. Aviation in Canada. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1979.

Miller, Kempster B. American Telephone Practice. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1905.

Miller, Kempster B. and Samuel G. McMeen. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy. Vol. 1, chapters 1 and 3. Chicago: American School of Correspondence, 1919.

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Mountjoy, Richard. 100 Years of Bell Telephones. Atglen, Penn.: Schiffer Publishing, 1995.

Paine, Albert Bigelow. In One Man’s Life. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921.

Parker, J. H. Bell and Baldwin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964.

Peck, William F. History of Rochester and Monroe County New York: . . . to 1907. Vol. 1. New York: The Pioneer Publishing Company, 1908.

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Stern, Ellen, and Emily Gwathmey. Once Upon a Telephone: An Illustrated Social History. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994.

Studer, Clara. Sky Storming Yankee: The Life of Glenn Curtiss. New York: Stackpole Sons, 1937.

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Toward, Lilias M. Mabel Bell: Alexander’s Silent Partner. Cape Breton, N. S.: Breton Books, 1996.

Warner, Charles Dudley. Baddeck, and that Sort of Thing. Boston: James R. Osgood &. Co., 1877.

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Articles and Essays

American Electrician. Telephone advertisements. New York: American Electrician Company. 1 (Sept. 25, 1901).

“Atlantic and Pacific Coasts Joined by Long Distance Telephone Over Lines of Bell System.” Bell Telephone News (Jan. 1915), 2-8.

Boston Herald. Various articles (Sept. 29, 1903).

Carlson, W. Bernard. “Entrepreneurship in the Early Development of the Telephone.” Business and Economic History. 23 (1994).

Carty, John J. “Ideals of the Telephone Service: A Tribute to the Memory of Alexander Graham Bell.” Bell Telephone Quarterly (Oct. 1922).

Chanute, Octave. “Conditions of Success in the Design of Flying Machines.” Essay retyped in AEA Bulletin, 23 (1888).

 - - - - . Engineering Magazine (April 1896).

 - - - - . “Recent Experiments in Gliding Flight.” The Aeronautical Annual. Boston: W.B. Clarke & Co., 1897.

 

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“Charles Bourseul: French Inventor of the Telephone.” Popular Electricity. 5, 11 (March 1913), 1168-69.

“Construction of Ocean-to-Ocean Telephone Line Was the Work of Many Brains and Hands.” Bell Telephone News (Dec. 1914), 9-14.

Fairchild, Marian. “Dr. Montessori’s Visit to America.” Freedom for the Child. 1, 2 (Jan. 1914).

Finn, Bernard S. “Alexander Graham Bell’s Experiments with the Variable-Resistance Transmitter.” The Smithsonian Journal of History. 1 (1966).

Grosvenor, Edwin S. “A Man for All Seasons.” AT&T Focus (Oct. 1991).

Henderson, Dr. Alfred R. “Resuscitation Experiments and Breathing Apparatus of Alexander Graham Bell.” Chest. 62, 3 (Sept. 1972).

Higham, Daniel. “Prof. Pupin’s Discovery.” American Electrician. 13, 10 (Oct. 1901) 496.

Hubbard, Gardiner G. “Address.” National Geographic (Jan. 1888).

Jablon, Julian N. “Mahlon Loomis: He Changed ‘Telegraphy’ to ‘Wireless’.” CQ Magazine (July 1912).

Jones, Lilian Grosvenor. “My Grandfather Bell.” The New Yorker (Nov. 11, 1950).

Langley, Samuel P. “The Internal Work of the Wind.” American Journal of Science. 47 (Jan. 1894).

 - - - - . “Story of Experiments in Mechanical Flight.” The Aeronautical Annual. Boston: W.B. Clarke & Co., 1897.

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“Marketing By Telephone.” Popular Electricity. 5, 6 (Oct. 1912), 576-77.

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Mullett, Mary B. “How to Keep Young Mentally: Alexander Graham Bell Gives His Rules for Self-Education, Which, He Says, Is a Lifelong Process.” The American Magazine (Dec. 1921).

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O’Brien, A. Dallam. “The Telephone Sub-Station and its Connection to the Central Office.” American Electrician (March 1905), 149-50.

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Proskauer, Curt. “The American Dentist Mahlon Loomis, Pioneer in the Use of Porcelain in Dentistry.” Paper presented at the meeting of the American Academy of Dentistry, 1959.

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Washington Star. Various articles. (June 11, 1904).

Washington Star. “Talks of Advance on Science Lines: Themes Awaiting Solution’ Theme of Dr. Bell Before High School Graduates” (February 2, 1917).

Wright, Wilbur and Orville. “The Relations of Weight, Speed and Power of Flyers.” Aero Club of America. Navigating the Air. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1907.

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