Out of Silence into Sound (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Roger Burlingame
- First Published: 1964
- Time of Work: 1847–1922
- Setting: Scotland, England, Canada, and Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Alexander Bell, Alexander Melville Bell, Alexander Graham Bell, Joseph Henry, Thomas Watson, Mabel Hubbard, Theodore Newton Vail
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Education or educators, Science or scientists, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Biography, Inventions or inventors, Deafness or hearing-impaired persons, Sound, Telephones
- Locales: England, Canada, Massachusetts, Scotland
Form and Content
In the first chapter of Out of Silence into Sound: The Life of Alexander Graham Bell, Roger Burlingame reaches for the imagination of his intended audience by describing a “mystery” in Andover, Maine: the construction of a huge antenna that would communicate with the satellite Telstar, launched on July 10, 1962. After the narrative flashes back a century to the American Civil War, it shifts to Edinburgh, Scotland, introducing three generations of talented Bells. Burlingame then records Alexander Graham Bell’s birth in Edinburgh, his...
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