
Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Smithsonian Institution Archives, local number SIA2012-1090.
I have to sign off., it’s looking like Herman Melville is interconnected-into all this like Alexander Graham Bell and his father are, then Melville spent lots of free time up in Pittsfield Massachusetts where most of the plastics industry seems to me to have then come from circa this space race that didn’t pan out.
Public domain, 1903 photo from Popular Science Monthly, v. 63, from Wikimedia Commons.
ck Perkins School for the Blind and photo with Bell.
What I’m suspecting I found was that it looks like Helen Keller was actually possibly the “ovae-daughter/offspring-descendant” of that Annie (Macy) Sullivan teacher I’m thinking as I was looking through for a copy of this well-known picture, and then it looks like perhaps Mark Twain is involved in that genealogy some way or another, and it connected up to other things. There’s a letter from Helen Keller asking Florence Sabin for an interview for an article Keller was doing but there’s no indication of Ms. Keller’s deaf and blind situation so I’m suspicious that the whole Keller thing was a hoax and then it really looks like that when you notice that in the pictures Ms. Macy-Sullivan looks like maybe the actual parent of the growing girl, compare their photos at the different ages.
[from 2017 probably,](8 July) Whatever this inability to breathe/”magic” bell jar business is it likely came from Alexander Graham Bell’s work. I’ll try to type in some of his handwriting in a little while…. From Kendall F. Haven’s 2003 “Alexander Graham Bell: Inventor and Visionary;”March 10th 1876
Transmitting Inst.
The improved instrument shown in Fig. I was constructed this morning and tried this evening.
P is a brass pipe and
W the platinum wire
M The mouthpiece and
S The armature of The Receiving Instrument.
(Mr?) Watson was stationed in one room with the Receiving Instrument. He pressed one ear closely against S and closed his other … (and I don’t have the rest of the page) I think the kiddie-level book had said that Bell had accidentally spilled some acid on himself and had had to say or shout words to the effect of Watson come quickly I need you and that that had gotten through, but I don’t recall if it’s on this handwritten example page but might have the copy in the media file background here if it was an emergency to find that out. (I think that’s the only facetiousness or even humor I’ve gotten into this blog so far.)
The “P” is in where the Instrument looks like a bathtub and that his beard-line in it, there on the left side just over the beardline. The “W” platinum wire goes from the “P” brass rod to the Receiving Instrument but then also so does what looks like the same type of wire on the right side. “Armature” is a complicated word but means outer shell more or less; I guess it comes from sculpture terminology and then into electrical engineering.