Alexander Melville Bell
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Bell, Alexander Melville, 1819-1905, Scottish-American educator, b. Edinburgh. Bell worked out a physiological or visible alphabet, with symbols that were intended to represent every sound of the human voice. He taught elocution in Edinburgh (1843-65), lectured at the Univ. of London and in Boston, and engaged in the education of deaf-mutes in Washington, D.C. He wrote about education and the science of speech. Alexander Graham Bell was his son.
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| Born | March 1, 1819 Edinburgh, Scotland |
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| Died | August 7, 1905 (aged 86) |
| Resting place | Rock Creek Cemetery |
| Children | Alexander Graham Bell |
Alexander Melville Bell (1 March 1819 – 7 August 1905) was a researcher of physiological phonetics and was the author of numerous works on orthoepy and elocution. He was the father of Alexander Graham Bell.
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He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied under and became the principal assistant of his father, Alexander Bell, an authority on phonetics and defective speech. From 1843 to 1865 he lectured on elocution at the University of Edinburgh, and from 1865 to 1870 at the University of London. In 1868, and again in 1870 and 1871, he lectured in the Lowell Institute course in Boston.
In 1870 he became a lecturer on philology at Queen's College, Kingston, Ontario; and in 1881 he removed to Washington, D.C., where he devoted himself to the education of deaf mutes by the "Visible Speech" method of orthoepy, in which the alphabetical characters of his own invention were graphic diagrams of positions and motions of the organs of speech. Melville Bell died at age 86 in 1905.[1] He was interred in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Publications
- Steno-Phonography (1852)
- Letters and Sounds (1858)
- The Standard Elocutionist (1860)
- Principles of Speech and Dictionary of Sounds (1863)
- Visible Speech: The Science of Universal Alphabetics (1867)
- Sounds and their Relations (1881)
- Lectures on Phonetics (1885)
- A Popular Manual of Visible Speech and Vocal Physiology (1889)
- World English: the Universal Language (1888)
- The Science of Speech (1897)
- The Fundamentals of Elocution (1899)
Further reading
- John Hitz, Alexander Melville Bell (Washington, 1906).
References
- ^ "Alexander M. Bell Dead. Father of Prof. A. G. Bell Developed Sign Language for Mutes.". New York Times. 8 August 1905, Tuesday.
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
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