Moses Wainer Dykaar, Alexander Graham Bell, 1922, plaster, 22 1⁄2 x 23 x 15 in. (57.2 x 58.4 x 38.1 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1929.12.10
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Artist
- Date
- 1922
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 22 1⁄2 x 23 x 15 in. (57.2 x 58.4 x 38.1 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the artist
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- plaster
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Portrait male — Bell, Alexander Graham — bust
- Occupation — science — inventor
- 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.
