Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Katherine B. Shippen
- First Published: 1952
- Time of Work: 1871–1915
- Setting: Boston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Canada, England, and Scotland
- Principal Characters: Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson, Mabel Hubbard, Joseph Henry, Dom Pedro, Queen Victoria
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Education or educators, Communication, Science or scientists, Biography, Inventions or inventors, Deafness or hearing-impaired persons, Telephones
- Locales: Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA, England, Washington, D.C., Canada, Scotland
Form and Content
Katherine B. Shippen’s Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone begins in 1871, with Alexander Graham Bell’s arrival in Boston as a teacher of the deaf, and continues through twenty-one chronological chapters, ending with the first coast-to-coast telephone conversation on January 25, 1915. While Bell’s frail health is described, his indomitable spirit and faith in his invention present him as a strong character who tenaciously overcame scientific setbacks, financial difficulty, and personal disappointment in the pursuit of inventing the telephone. He...
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