Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (597 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801496918 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The best Bell biography out there" according to Luke. This book is a great read, and incorporates plenty of information about Bell's personal life in addition to his professional career, including the many years after he invented the telephone. Very comprehensive and enjoyable!. "books" according to Amy. good books. Superb Biography-History "Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude" by Robert V. Bruce is a superb historical biography with sufficient detail to understand the development of the telephone, the character of those associated with Alexander Graham Bell, and the era in which this absolutely compelling American saga takes place. I would rate this book in the top 10 of all the biographies that I have read (well over 200). This author's prose and story telling ability are second to none. His insights and balance do great justice to one of the most prominent figures of the 19th century. Well worth the trouble of finding a copy.
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Here he emerges not as a myth but as a man."Los Angeles Times . It becomes, as the author writes, a study not of long adversity culminating in a final crescendo of triumph, the usual pattern for heroic tales, but of a long personal struggle against the deadening handicap of early fame. The technical trials and errors, Bell's almost naive persistence, the actual components he worked with, are all attentively documented by Professor Bruce. It is in Bruce's account of Bell's life after the telephone that the man himself emerges and the book takes on its most powerful interest. We are, as well, given a vivid picture of the human environment out of which the telephone emerged, as one individual after another, each of immense importance to Bell, sought to advise, encourage, deter, rectify his failings or even defeat him. "Both a lucid picture of an extraordinary scientific career and an engaging account of a remarkable man. It is an absorbing story. This authoritative, scientific