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Identifier: belltelephonemag4344amerrich (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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able voiceless future. What does he do now? Take this turn of events lyingdown—or try to take advantage of thecorrective measures available to him? Ifit is the latter, the Bell System can offersome of the corrective measures whichcan help him. Harrys case is far from isolated. And,instead of having speech problems, hecould be hard of hearing or totally deaf.In this country, it is estimated thatthere are 750,000 people with speechproblems, 300,000 who are totally deafand 5,000,000 who are partially deaf. Ob-viously, communication with the worldaround them can present difficulties forthese people. They need help. A Legacy of Responsibility The Bell System has felt a traditionalsense of responsibility toward the handi-capped, in terms of communication. Anobvious reason, of course, is the fact thatwere in the communications business.But it goes back further than that—asa matter of fact, to before the time thetelephone was invented. Indeed, it goesback to the early life of Alexander 25
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Graham Bell and to the family influ-ences which helped mold the directionhis later efforts would take. Bells father was well known as ateacher of speech. He invented what hecalled Visible Speech, a code of sym-bols which indicated the position and ac-tion of the throat, tongue and lips whenvarious sounds were uttered. Althoughoriginally planned for more general pur-poses, Visible Speech turned out to bea helpful guide for the deaf in learningto speak. Undoubtedly influenced by hismothers loss of hearing—which startedwhen he was twelve—Bell took a keeninterest in his fathers theories and be-came expert in their use as he grew up. He undertook a certain amount ofspeech research on his own, too. Thestory goes that Bell and his brothersmade a model skull and fitted it with areproduction of human vocal apparatus,operated with a bellows. They managedto pioduce such a lifelike mama wailfrom their skull one night that the neigh-bors turned out in alarm, sure that ababy was lost in the vic

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