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The Sound and the Silence is a 1992 television film directed by John Kent Harrison and starring John Bach as Alexander Graham Bell.

Alexander Bell (1790-1865) married (1) Elizabeth Colville (died 1856), divorced 1831, had 1 daughter and 3 sons: Jane Bell (1815-1817) David Charles Bell (1817-1903?) Alexander Melville Bell (1819-1905) married (1) Eliza Grace Symonds (1809-1897) and had 3 sons: Melville James Bell (1845-1870) Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) married Mabel Gardiner Hubbard (1857-1923) Elsie May Bell (1878.

Plot[edit]

The film begins with Bell's childhood in Scotland, where his is initially intrigued by sights and sounds.^[1] The film then follows his days as an inventor in Brantford, Ontario, Boston, Massachusetts, and Baddeck, Nova Scotia. The film was shot in New Zealand and on location at Alexander Graham Bell's Beinn Bhreagh estate in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Awards[edit]

The Sound and the Silence won the CableACE award in 1994 for International Movie or Miniseries/Comedy or Dramatic Special or Series.^[2] The film won Gemini Awards for Best Costume Design, Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series, and Best Production Design or Art Direction.^[3] The film was also nominated for Geminis in the categories of Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series, Best Dramatic Mini-Series, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series.^[4]

References[edit]

1. ^CM Archive
2. ^'The Sound and the Silence'. IMDb. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
3. ^Canada's Awards Database
4. ^The Sound and the Silence (1992) (TV) - Awards

External links[edit]

• The Sound and the Silence on IMDb

Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847–August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and engineer best known for inventing the first practical in 1876, founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877, and a refinement of in 1886. Greatly influenced by the deafness of both his mother and his wife, Bell dedicated much of his life’s work to researching hearing and speech and helping the hearing impaired communicate. In addition to the telephone, Bell worked on numerous other inventions, including a metal detector, airplanes, and hydrofoils—or “flying” boats. Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, to Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds Bell in Edinburgh, Scotland. He had two brothers, Melville James Bell and Edward Charles Bell, both of whom would die of tuberculosis.

Having been born simply “Alexander Bell,” at age 10, he begged his father to give him a middle name like his two brothers. On his 11th birthday, his father granted his wish, allowing him to adopt the middle name “Graham,” chosen out of respect for Alexander Graham, a family friend. In 1864, Bell attended the University of Edinburgh along with his older brother Melville. In 1865, the Bell family moved to London, England, where in 1868, Alexander passed the entrance examinations for University College London. From an early age, Bell had been immersed in the study of sound and hearing.

His mother had lost her hearing at age 12, and his father, uncle, and grandfather were authorities on elocution and taught speech therapy for the deaf. It was understood that Bell would follow in the family footsteps after finishing college. However, after his brothers both died of tuberculosis, he withdrew from college in 1870 and immigrated with his family to Canada. In 1871, at age 24, Bell immigrated to the United States, where he taught at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes, the Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton, Massachusetts, and at the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.

In early 1872, Bell met Boston attorney Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who would become one of his primary financial backers and father-in-law. In 1873, he began working with Hubbard’s 15-year-old daughter Mabel Hubbard, who had lost her hearing at age 5 after nearly dying of scarlet fever. Despite the nearly 10-year difference in their ages, Alexander and Mabel fell in love and were married on July 11, 1877, a matter of days after Alexander had founded the Bell Telephone Company. As a wedding present, Bell gave his bride all but ten of his 1,497 shares in his promising new telephone company. The couple would go on to have four children, daughters Elsie, Marian, and two sons who died in infancy. Between 1873 and 1874, with the financial backing of Thomas Sanders and his future father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, Bell worked on his “harmonic telegraph,” based on the principle that several different notes could be sent simultaneously along the same wire if the notes or signals differed in pitch.

It was during his work on the harmonic telegraph that Bell’s interest drifted to an even more radical idea, the possibility that not just the telegraph’s dots-and-dashes, but the human voice itself could be transmitted over wires. Bell proceeded with his work on the multiple telegraph, but he did not tell Hubbard that he and Watson were also developing a device that would transmit speech electrically.

While Watson worked on the harmonic telegraph at the insistent urging of Hubbard and other backers, Bell secretly met in March 1875 with, the respected director of the Smithsonian Institution, who listened to Bell's ideas for a telephone and offered encouraging words. Spurred on by Henry's positive opinion, Bell and Watson continued their work.

Alexander Graham Bell’s curiosity also led him to speculate on the nature of heredity, initially among the deaf and later with sheep born with genetic mutations. In this vein, Bell was an advocate of forced sterilization and was closely connected with the in the United States.

In 1883, he presented data to the National Academy of Sciences indicating that congenitally deaf parents were more likely to produce deaf children and tentatively suggested that deaf people should not be allowed to marry each other. He also conducted sheep-breeding experiments at his estate to see if he could increase the numbers of twin and triplet births.

In other instances, Bell’s curiosity drove him to try to come up with novel solutions on the spot whenever problems arose. In 1881, he hastily constructed a as a way to try and locate a bullet lodged in after an assassination attempt. Compiling htk for mac. He would later improve this and produce a device called a telephone probe, which would make a telephone receiver click when it touched metal.

And when Bell's newborn son, Edward, died from respiratory problems, he responded by designing a metal vacuum jacket that would facilitate breathing. The apparatus was a forerunner of the used in the 1950s to aid polio victims. A believer in scientific teamwork, Bell worked with two associates: his cousin Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, at the Volta Laboratory.

After his first visit to Nova Scotia in 1885, Bell set up another laboratory there at his estate Beinn Bhreagh (pronounced Ben Vreeah), near Baddeck, where he would assemble other teams of bright young engineers to pursue new and exciting ideas heading into the future. Their experiments produced such major improvements in Thomas Edison's phonograph that it became commercially viable. Their design, patented as the Graphophone in 1886, featured a removable cardboard cylinder coated with mineral wax. “Alexander Graham Bell.” Lemelson—MIT, Vanderbilt, Tom. “A Brief History of the Telephone, From Alexander Graham Bell to the iPhone.” Slate Magazine, Slate, 15 May 2012, Foner, Eric and Garraty, John A. “The Reader’s Companion to American History.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 1, 1991. 'The Bell Family.” Bell Homestead National Historic Site,.

Bruce, Robert V. “Bell: Alexander Bell and the Conquest of Solitude.” Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1990. 'Dom Pedro II and America'. The Library of Congress, Bell, Mabel (1922). Bell's Appreciation of the Telephone Service'.

Bell Telephone Quarterly, https://archive.org/stream/belltelephonemag01amer#page/64/mode/2up.