Early Telephone Operator, Brantford



BIRTHDAY OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ~  March 3, 1847

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland March 3, 1847.  Bell eventually held three citizenships:  U.K., Canadian and U.S.A.

Bell Homestead ~ Brantford Ontario

"Some of the old people thought the man was foolish to spend so much time flying kites. 'It seems like a damn fool thing to do,' they'd say.  And I can hear Dr. Bell laugh yet when he heard that.  He'd throw back his head and his whiskers would bounce.  'They think I'm some kind of nut,' he'd say.  'You're a useful nut,' I'd tell him.  They'd classified him as one." ~ Mayme Morrison Brown, neighbour.

Born in Edinburgh Scotland, the innovator, inventor, teacher eventually held three citizenships:  U.K., Canadian and U.S.A.  Bell died in Nova Scotia, Canada, August 2, 1922 at the age of seventy-five.

www.bellhomestead.ca

~ Genius At Work Images of Alexander Graham Bell, Dorothy Harley Eber, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1982.
(Photos:  Summer 2012 lbw. Click on photo for larger image.)