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Europe | Where did Bell and his wife go on their honeymoon? |
lectures | Before 1897, what did Bell get most of his money from? |
1880 | In what year did Mabel's father move to Washington D.C.? |
1882 | In what year did Bell acquire a house in D.C.? |
Cambridge, Massachusetts | Where did Bell and Mabel live before 1880? |
patent disputes | What did Bell have to go to court for in D.C.? |
1882 | In what year did Bell officially become an American? |
British | What was Bell's original nationality? |
Canada | Besides the US and UK, what other country claims Bell as a citizen? |
hyphenated | What does Bell call people who are citizens of two countries? |
Breton Island | What Island in Nova Scotia did the Bells go to in 1885? |
Bras d'Or | In 1886, what lake did Bell start building a house near? |
The Lodge | What did the Bells call the house completed in 1889? |
40 | How many people worked for the Bell Boatyard? |
Beinn Bhreagh | Where did the Bells live when the Halifax Explosion happened? |
December 6, 1917 | On what day did the Halifax Explosion happen? |
Beinn Bhreagh | Which of their two homes did the Bells start spending more time as Bell aged? |
Baddeck | What city adopted the Bells? |
mobilized the community | What did the Bells do to help the victims in Halifax? |
Encyclopædia Britannica | What series of books does Gray say Bell would go to sleep reading? |
18 | How many solo patents did Bell get? |
12 | How many patents did Bell co-author? |
Volta | What famous lab did Bell spend time working for? |
magnetic | What type of energy did Bell investigate at the Volta Laboratory? |
tape recorder | The magnetic field is part of what sort of recorder? |
ice | What form of water played a part in Bell's home cooling system? |
Methane gas | What did Bell think could be collected from farm and factory byproduct? |
composting | What kind of toilet did Bell work on? |
solar | Right before his death, what kind of energy did he speculate about? |
photophone | What did Bell call his cord-free phone? |
Charles Sumner Tainter | Who did Bell invent the cord-free phone with? |
light | What did Bell's cord-free phone use to transmit messages? |
Volta Laboratory Association | What lab association did Bell and Tainter both eventually join? |
normal human conversations | In the photophone, light carried sound and what? |
June 21, 1880 | Bell and his assistant first used their photophone on what date? |
700 | How many feet did the first photophone message travel? |
Franklin School | From what building was the first photophone message sent? |
19 | How many years after this photophone message would the first message take place over radio? |
The photophone | What did Bell call the best thing he ever made? |
telephone | Bell thought the photophone was better than what famous invention? |
fiber-optic communication | What modern technology takes the next step from the photophone? |
1880 | When was fiber-optics first patented? |
1980s | In what decade did fiber-optics become widely used? |
metal detector | What did Bell create in 1881? |
bullet | What was in James Garfield that they wanted to get out? |
metal bed frame | What did Bell think was wrong with the bed, which prevented his machine from finding the bullet? |
first | On which run did Bell's metal detector give a small indication? |
in tests | When did Bell's metal detector work well? |
Science | Bell gave his story about trying to find the bullet to the American Association for the Advancement of what? |
Executive Mansion | Where did Bell go the day after trying to find the bullet? |
horse-hair | What kind of mattress was the President directly on? |
footnote | Where did Bell indicate that the bullet was too deep for his machine to register? |
William E. Meacham | Who wrote the paper laying out hydrofoils and hydroplanes? |
American | What nationality was Meacham? |
hydrofoil boat | What did Bell start drawing after reading the article? |
Frederick W. "Casey" Baldwin | Who helped Bell investigate hydrofoils in 1908? |
Enrico Forlanini | Which Italian scientist did Baldwin draw inspiration from? |
France | In what country did Baldwin and Forlanini get together? |
flying | What did Baldwin liken the hydrofoil boat to? |
HD-4 | Which boat was first powered by a Renault engine? |
maroon | What color silk covered Bell's kites? |
Selfridge | Who was on Cygnet I when it crashed? |
1912 | Bell's kits were flown from 1907 to what year? |
3 | How many tetrahedral wings did Bell create? |
Alexander Graham Bell | Some of the kites remain at what National Historic Site? |
Aerial Experiment Association | What organization did Bell set up due to his interest in aerospace? |
1907 | When was the AEA founded? |
Glenn H. Curtiss | Which original member of the AEA held motorcycle speed records? |
army | Which branch of the military was Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge in? |
gliders | What did the AEA work on after kites? |
bamboo | What material was the Red Wing's frame made of? |
biplane | What kind of plane was the Red Wing? |
150 | How many accident-free flights had the AEA taken by 1909? |
Selfridge | Who was the first person to die in a plane crash? |
Silver Dart | What did the AEA name their last plane? |
J.A.D. McCurdy | Who was the first to fly the Silver Dart? |
a doctor | What professional did Bell make sure was present during the first Silver Dart flight? |
Canadian Aerodrome Company | What business did Baldwin and McCurdy start after the AEA folded? |
February 23 | On what month and day did the Silver Dart take its first flight? |
congenitally deaf parents | What kind of parents did Bell state were more prone to having deaf children? |
Second International Congress of Eugenics | In 1921 the American Museum of Natural History hosted what event? |
David Starr | Which biologist ran the Committee on Eugenics? |
livestock breeding | What did Bell like to do that led to his involvement with eugenics? |
Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers | What are Bell's personal papers known as? |
Manuscript Division | In what part of the Library of Congress are Bell's papers kept? |
online | Apart from in person, how can one look at many of Bell's papers? |
Cape Breton University | In what university is the Alexander Graham Bell Institute? |
Nova Scotia | In what province is the Alexander Graham Bell Institute located? |
$250,000 | Adjusted for inflation, how many dollars were awarded to Bell alongside the Volta Prize? |
Alexandre Dumas | Victor Hugo and what other author helped judge the Volta Prize in 1880? |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Who first established the Volta Prize? |
wax | The Volta lab improved the phonograph by replacing tinfoil with what substance? |
Volta Bureau | Which Bell-founded institution still operates in Georgetown today? |
Science | What magazine did Bell found alongside Hubbard? |
1903 | When did Bell cease to be President of the National Geographic Society? |
illustrations | What enduring feature of National Geographic did Bell help implement? |
Albert Medal | What award did Bell win in 1902? |
honorary degrees | What did Bell receive from many centers of post-secondary education? |
Bell Telephone Memorial | What is the most famous statue built for Bell and his creation? |
1917 | When was the Bell Telephone Memorial constructed? |
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