English: Unveiling of the bust of Alexander Graham Bell by Paul Manship, March 3, 1947. Before the sculpture stand Dr. Oliver E. Buckley, Mr. Walter S. Gifford, Mrs Elsie May Grosvenor, Gardiner H. Myers and Midshipman Alexander Graham Bell Grosvenor: great-grandsons of the telephone's inventor

Identifier: belltelephonemag26amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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The unveiling. Mjs. Gill>er( Grosvenor,a daughter of Alexander Graham Bell,reveals an heroic bust of her father as avoung man, executed in terra cotta byPaul Manship, as President Oliver E.Buckley of Bell Telephone Laboratoriesand President Walter S. Gifford of theA. T. & T. Company look on tion, the modern telephone as a de-scendant of his own brain child andBell Telephone Laboratories as a de-scendant of the attic laboratory ofhimself and Watson in which the tele-phone was born. From Dr. Bells original telephoneinstrument have sprung the fifty mil- Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING
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lion or more telephones in use today.Descendants of that first telephoneare to be found all over the world.There are great variations amongthem, but all bear evidence of theircommon ancestry. Growth in num-bers has been paralleled in time byrapid evolution in design. The tele-phone has changed over the yearsand become progressively a better in-strument as new knowledge and newmethods of operation have been in-corporated in it. However, we cannot appropriatelytreat of telephones as individuals. Atelephone instrument by itself haslittle value or usefulness. It is usefulonly when associated with anothertelephone and a line to connect them,and its value increases the greater Before the sculpture stand Dr.Buckley, Mr. Giffordy Mrs.Grosvenor, and Gardiner H.Myers and Midshipman Alex-ander Graham Bell Grosvenor^great-grandsons of the telephonesinventor the number of instrumentswith which it can be con-nected. More striking even thanthe evolution of the tele-phone instrument itself isthe evol

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