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Alec files and receives new patent application
covering the refinements in transmitter and receiver
-got this done in with uncharacteristic focus -
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Alec demonstrates the telephone as "shows"
-gets great press -
The business world takes note of Alec's invention
realizes benefit to setting up 3-way conversations
'-with this, Hubbard moves into high gear to lease phones -
Hubbard draws up legal documents for Bell Telephone Company
shareholders = Hubbard, Alec, Tom Watson, and Thomas Sanders -
Alec sells part of his interest in British patent to William Reynolds
Reynolds - Rhode Island cotton broker -
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phone service went from 200 to 1300 in 2 months
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Alec (30) and Mabel (19) get married at Hubbard home
Hubbards agree to wedding date due to commercial success
Alec gave Mabel 30% of Bell Telephone - all but 10 of his shares as wedding present -
Mabel meets Eliza for the first time
Alec and Mabel visit Brantford following honeymoon in Niagara Falls -
Alec and Mabel return home so Alec can attend first shareholders meeting
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Mabel and Alec go to Scotland-end up staying a year in London
Mabel is pregnant and can't travel
Set up residence in London -
Mabel and Alec move into their new home in London
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Alec invited to demonstrated the telephone to Queen (Victoria)
Demonstration went well, except he touched her hand to get her attention' -
Baby arrives right on time - Elsie
Elsie (Scottish variant of Eliza) May (for Mabel and birth month)
-Mabel quickly adjusted to motherhood, her mother impressed
-Alec worried about the baby's hearing, but blew a loud blast and the baby "startled" -
Alec and family dock in Quebec City -- Watson there to greet them
-Alec knew Watson was there to get him to Boston for preliminary testimony for suit against Western Union
-however, Alec suffering acute stomach pains -
Alec dictates statement from hospital bed
statement arrives in DC just before the deadline -
Alec leaves hospital to join Mabel and Elisa in Boston
staying at Mary Blanchford's (spinster first cousin) -
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Bell Telephone Co lawsuit against Western Union
-Elisha Gray gives his evidence
-3 days later, Alec had a letter written by Gray March 1877 congratulating Bell on his invention where he claimed no part
-Alec testifies…majestic bearing, steady gaze, nearly photographic memory
-Western Union decided the risks of pursuing the case were too great (wants to settle) -
Bell Telephone stock soars
Court settlement a huge victory…
-Bell a monopoly and 14 years to go on the patent
-access to established agencies and customers
-transferred at cost, telephones, lines, switchboards, patent rights to Bell Company
-lawsuit an expensive blow to Western Union -
Mabel's sister (called Sister)marries Hungarian actor
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Baby #2 arrives .. Daisy
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Melville and Eliza move to DC
sometime in 1881 moved after 11 years in Canada
to be close to Alec and grandchildren ( -
Alec makes presentation on the spectrophone
-like the photophone no practical application -
Pres Garfield shot…bullet lodged in his back
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Alec takes apparatus experiment to locate metal using sound
leaves Mabel - pregnant with 3rd child in Boston (escaping DC heatwave) -
Mable gave birth premature to Edward (lived only a few hours)
Alec started working on a mechanical device administering artificial respiration
-the "vacuum jacket" precursor to the "iron lung" -
Pres Garfield dies
-bullet was too deep for Alec's apparatus to detect
-bullet not the cause of death…bullet in harmlessly soft tissue
-cause of death antisepsis (fingers/germs in the wound) -
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Bells arrive in London and spend 6 month touring Europe
-Rome, Nice, Paris, London…first of many "Grand Tours" they would take -
Alec becomes US citizen after living in the US for over 10 years
-Mabel said Alec was irritatingly proud of his new status
-Alec said I'm a citizen because I chose to be one -
Paper submitted on deafness and inheritance (heredity)
Alec still is (always will) be interested in deafness
-submitted to National Academy of Sciences
-with an fortunate title that outraged the deaf community
-implied deaf people an inferior species -
Mabel 7 months pregnant - not feeling well
doc says it's a just cold
that evening Mabel miscarries -
Melville proposes Alec and family to join him exploring Newfoundland
-Hubbard agrees because of coal mines at Glace Bay and wanted Alec to take a look
-Alec agrees read euphoric description about Bras d'Or Lake -
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Melville proposes Alec and family to join him exploring Newfoundland
-Hubbard agrees because of coal mines at Glace Bay and wanted Alec to take a look
-Alec agrees read euphoric description about Bras d'Or Lake
-after ship wreck experience did visit coal mine and explore Nova Scotia
-AND fall in love with Bras 'Or Lake to return every summer and die there -
Pan-Electric Co persuaded US gvt to file suit against Bell patents
Another lawsuit claiming patent was won dishonestly and Alec a charlatan
-1888 lawsuit ended... Alec emerged unscathed from this lawsuit -
knock at door ,,,6 year old Helen Keller with her father
-Alec could never turn away a deaf child
-eye surgeon in B'more recommended the Keller's consult with Alec who focused on educating the deaf