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Mabel Gardiner Hubbard (November 25, 1857 – January 3, 1923), was the daughter of Boston lawyer Gardiner Hubbard, and the wife of Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone….
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Biography
She was born on November 25, 1857 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, a nexus of the Puritan theology embraced by the town’s founders. Notably, Cambridge is home to two internationally prominent…
Gardiner Greene Hubbard was an American lawyer, financier, and philanthropist. He was one of the founders of the Bell Telephone Company and the first president of the National Geographic Society.-Biography:…
and Gertrude Mercer McCurdy.
She contracted scarlet fever
Scarlet fever
Scarlet fever is a disease caused by an erythrogenic exotoxin released by Streptococcus pyogenes. The term Scarlatina may be used interchangeably with Scarlet Fever, though it is commonly used to indicate the less acute form of Scarlet Fever that is often seen since the beginning of the twentieth…
in 1861 or 1862, and was left deaf. She became one of Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone….
‘s pupils, and they later married (on July 11, 1877) when she was 19.
They had four children:
Elsie May Bell (1878-1964) who married Gilbert Grosvenor of National Geographic;
Marian Hubbard Bell (1880-1962) who was referred to as “Daisy” ; Edward Bell (1881); and Robert Bell (1883).
She was the inspiration for her father’s involvement in the founding of the first oral school for the deaf in the United States, Clarke School for the Deaf
Clarke School for the Deaf
Clarke School for the Deaf is a private school located in Northampton, Massachusetts that specializes in educating deaf children using the oral method and suggests to its students to refrain from using sign language while on campus. However, it respects the decisions of the student to use sign…
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Deaf to Bell’s utterances
Mabel was also the indirect source of her husband’s early commercial success after his creation of the telephone. The U.S. Centennial Exposition
Centennial Exposition
The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official World’s Fair in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. It was officially the International Exhibition of…
in Philadelphia in 1876 made Bell’s newly invented telephone a featured headline worldwide. The Brazilian
Brazil
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Emperor Dom Pedro II and the eminent British physicist William Thomson
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin , OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE, was a British mathematical physicist and engineer…
(Lord Kelvin) recommended his device to the Committee of Electrical Awards, which voted Bell the Gold Medal for Electrical Equipment. Bell also won a second Gold Medal for Visible Speech, for his additional display at the exposition. Ironically, Bell hadn’t even planned on exhibiting at the fair due to his heavy teaching schedule, and only went there at the stern insistence of Mabel, his then-fiancée and future wife
Mabel had understood Bell’s reluctance to go to the exhibition, so she had secretly bought his train ticket, packed his bag, and then took the unknowing Bell to the train station where she told her shocked fiancé that he was going on a trip. When Bell started arguing with her, Mabel turned her sight away from him thus becoming literally deaf to his protests.
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