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  1. Alexander Melville Bell (1 March 1819 – 7 August 1905) was a teacher and researcher of physiological phonetics and was the author of numerous works on orthoepy and elocution. Additionally he was also the creator of Visible Speech which was used to help the deaf learn to talk, and was the father of Alexander Graham Bell .

  2. Dec 17, 2007 · Alexander Melville Bell, educator, founder of the Canadian telephone industry (b at Edinburgh, Scot 1 Mar 1819; d at Washington, DC 7 Aug 1905). He was the father of Alexander Graham Bell. Prior to moving his family to Tutela Heights near Brantford, Ontario, in the 1870s, he was professor of elocution at the universities of London and Edinburgh.

  3. Visible Speech is a system of phonetic symbols developed by British linguist Alexander Melville Bell in 1867 to represent the position of the speech organs in articulating sounds. Bell was known internationally as a teacher of speech and proper elocution and an author of books on the subject.

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  5. About this Collection. Collection Items. Articles and Essays. Listen to this page. Alexander Melville Bell. Alexander Bell (1790-1865) married (1) Elizabeth Colville (died 1856), divorced 1831, had 4 children, 2 girls and 2 boys: Jane Bell (1815-1817) David Charles Bell (1817-1903?)

  6. Alexander Melville Bell publishes his definitive work on Visible Speech, Visible Speech: The Science of Universal Alphabetics. May 21, 1868 Bell begins teaching speech to the deaf at Susanna Hull 's school for deaf children in London.

  7. Apr 19, 2024 · Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf whose foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone (1876) and refinement of the phonograph (1886). He also worked on use of light to transmit sound, development of a metal detector, and heavier-than-air flight.

  8. A Scottish-American educator who developed a visible alphabet for speech sounds. He taught elocution and deaf-mute education, and was the father of Alexander Graham Bell.

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