biography
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Bell, Alexander Melville
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1819–1905)
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| biography:
| Educationist, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK, the father of Alexander Graham Bell. A teacher of elocution at Edinburgh University and University College London, he moved to Canada in 1870, then settled in Washington, DC. In 1867 he published Visible Speech, a system showing the position of the vocal organs for each sound. |
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