Alexander Graham Bell

Copied Moses Wainer Dykaar, Alexander Graham Bell, 1922, plaster, 22 122315 in. (57.258.438.1 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1929.12.10
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Artwork Details

Title
Alexander Graham Bell
Date
1922
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
22 122315 in. (57.258.438.1 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the artist
Mediums
Mediums Description
plaster
Classifications
Keywords
  • Occupation — science — inventor
  • Portrait male — Bell, Alexander Graham — bust
Object Number
1929.12.10

Artwork Description

Alexander Graham Bell is known around the world for his invention of the telephone in 1876. He created many other innovative devices, including a gigantic man-lifting kite, a balancing rudder for airplanes, and a telephone probe to detect bullets in the human body. He would often get up in the middle of the night to work out a new idea, and once took apart his wife’s new venetian blinds in order to construct a propeller. Bell was a lecturer on vocal physiology at Boston University and a founder of the American Association for the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf.