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This book changed the way that i view alexander graham bell, the telephone, and how we remember. Bells father and grandfather were experts in speech and this led bell to study human voice. Calling alexander graham bell on the invention of the. He also worked on use of light to transmit sound, development of a. The elisha grayalexander bell controversy and its many. His father and grandfather were prominent elocutionists in england, working with the deaf. A pageturnerthe telephone gambit is solid history, and seth shulman makes it as much fun to read as an agatha christie whodunit. He comes away with a stunning and plausible conclusion as he discredits bell s claim to the worlds most valuable patent.
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