Identifier: belltelephonemag00vol2930amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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t to speak among themselvesby sign language. Many leading au-thorities considered that it was im-practicable and a waste of time to try to teach speech to the deaf anddumb—it was even commonly sup-posed that their organs of speech hadbeen impaired. At one time Bell, aswell as his father, had held, as he ex-pressed it, an obstinate disbelief inthe powers of lip reading. Laterhe became convinced of these powers,partly perhaps through the ease withwhich he could converse with MabelHubbard, who had become adept atlip-reading. Characteristically, when Bell rec-ognized his misconception he wasquick to correct it in an active way.As early as 1872 he began a crusadefor recognizing the intellectual pos-sibilities of deaf children and forteaching them to speak and read lipsrather than being content to teachthem sign language. His influencespread rapidlv, helped by the successof his application of visible speech toteaching the deaf to talk. On Janu- 1950-51 Dr. Bell Elected to Hall of Fame 207
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BelFat Its i>iterest in the deaf was life-long. In this picture of a group of pupils and teachersthe Boston School for the Deaf—Sarah Fuller s School—taken in /S?/, Bell is at the right at the top of the steps ary 24, 1874, he addressed the firstconvention of Articulation Teachersof the Deaf and Dumb and he con-tinued to take an active part in thisand other organizations of a similarnature. While this work was inter-rupted in the years 1875 to 1878 byhis activities on the telephone andassociated inventions he threw him-self into the work again on his returnto America in 1 878. In 1880, he received the VoltaAward of 50,000 francs for his in-vention of the telephone. With thishe founded the Volta LaboratoryAssociation (later the Volta Bu-reau), which was largely devoted towork for the deaf. In 1883, after anexhaustive study, he presented beforethe National Academy of Sciences a memoir: Upon the formation of adeaf variety of the human race. Inthis he traced the eugenic dangers oft

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