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Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, March 7, 1984, page 15 classified marketplace Office Hours: Tuesday-Friday 9:00-12:00 1:00-5:00 i' DEADLINE: FRIDAY NOON: Mail your advertisement to P.O. Box 579, Terrace Bay, or bring it to our office at Simcoe Plaza _Aemember when... Gory \ =, MACDONALD Unforeseen events of- ten change the course of people's lives, moving them in unexpected di- rections. Such as the case with Alexander Graham Bell. The son and grand- son of teachers with special interest in elo- cution and speech pa- thology, Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1847. He was teaching well before his twenti- eth birthday, and en- joyed an excellent repu- tation as a result of his work with the deaf. Young Aleck might have spent his life in Great Britain, but tragedy in- tervened. In 1867, his younger brother Ted died of tub- erculosis. Three years later, Melville, his older brother, succumbed to the same disease. Fri- ghtened that he would lose his remaining child, his father recalled how he had regained his own health in Newfound- land as a young man. With his wife, widowed daughter-in-law, and Aleck, he decided to emigrate to Canada. The family settled near Paris, Ontario, and Aleck spent the summer and early autumn of 1871 relaxing on the bluffs overlooking the Grand River. Although in later years he claimed to have come to Canada a dying man, in reality he seems to have been quite healthy, for he made frequent trips to the nearby Six Nations Indian Reserve to trans- cribe Mohawk words in- to Visible Speech. People of... ONTARIO by Cheryl MacDonald Ontario's Bicentennial: 1784-1984 These photos were submitted by Anne Todesco of Rossport. She asks ... Can anyone remember when Coca-Cola was 5 cents a bottle in the 30's at the Todesco store in Rossport. Remember when we could buy a cord of wood for $4.50? The photo at the right is of the last toboggan party in Rossport before the early thaw in February. No snow is left on that particular slide today. "Visible Speech was a system his father, Alex- ander Melville Bell, cre- ated for teaching the congenitally deaf to speak. Various special symbols indicated the placement of the tongue and palate, enabling a person familiar with the system to duplicate a sound or word in any language, whether or not they had heard the sound before. Aleck and his brothers had often demonstrated the sys- tem with their father. The. family's interest in the problems of the deaf was understandable: Aleck's mother, Eliza Symmonds, was deaf. Visible Speech creat- ed a lot of interest, and Bell senior was often asked to lecture on his system. On one trip Sarah Fuller, princpal of the Boston School for the Deaf Mutes, asked him to consider teaching the technique there. Bell refused, but recom- mended Aleck for the position. So, on April 5, 1871, Bell arrived in the Massachusetts city to take up his duties. Aleck's teaching brought dramatic re- sults, particularly with children. Even when Dexter King, chief fin- ancial backer of the school, died, leaving Bell's job in jeopardy, he was able to support himself by taking priv- ate pupils. Through his teaching, he met Gardi- ner Green Hubbard, who had a deaf daugh- ter. Mabel Hubbard would eventually _be- come Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell, but at the first the relationship be- tween the two men was strictly professional. Gardiner Hubbard was a patent lawyer avidly interested in mechanical and electri- cal inventions. Since childhood, Aleck . had dabbled with inven- tions. He lacked much basic knowledge, parti- cularly in mathe- matics, but he had an insatiable curiosity and the stubborness to stick to a problem for long periods of time. When Bell told Hub- bard of his experiments with the transmission of sound over distance, the older man was_enthu- siastic. He encouraged Bell to pursue his re- search, and often it was Hubbard who forced Bell to stick to the work on the telephone when more appealing ideas threatened to divert him. Bell complied for two reasons. First, he was genuinely interested in the invention. Secondly, he wanted to marry Mabel, and to do so he needed financial in- dependence. Possibly the telephone could pro- vide this. He had outlined the experiment to his father on a visit home in Aug- ust 1874, and a facsimile of his notes can still be seen at the Bell Home- stead. But even after a patent was taken out on the invention there were many difficulties to overcome. When the Centennial Exposition took place in Philadel-' phia in 1876, Bell had no intention of exhibiting until Mabel quarrelled with him over his deci- sion. Bell gave in, for- tunately, as. it turned out. : Judging was set for a hot, sticky day, and the | overheated judges al- most bypassed Bell's exhibit with little more than a cursory. glance. But one of the dignita- ries in the group was Dom Pedro of Brazil, who had met Bell as a teacher of the deaf. When the South Ameri- can ruler expressed in- terest in Bell's work, he was given a chance to demonstrate the tele- phone. community was electri- fied and Bell became a very rich man. | While the telephone was his most famous in- - vention, Alexander Gra- ham Bell spent the re- mainder of his life work- ing on other experi- ments, as well as teach- ing the deaf. When two of his sons died shortly after birth as a result of respiratory problems, he invented the prototype of an iron lung. And, at Baddeck in Nova Sco- tia, he and several other adventurous men de- signed the Silver Dart, which became the first plane to fly in the British Empire. Bell died in 1922, and was buried in Nova Sco- tia. The scientific . ANNOUNCEMENTS Does your home: need a facelift? Harris Enterpris- 6s, your complete exterior home renovator, can help you. We specialize in sid- ing, soffit, and windows. 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