As schoolchildren we learn that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. We don’t learn that this is among the least interesting things about him. It takes a book like Katie Booth’s “The ...

The telephone made a great difference in the communication patterns of people since numerous inventions have been created by people, yet none of them influenced it to such a significant extent. This ...

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, wasn’t always a great listener. Especially when it came to the deaf people whose education he considered his life’s work. That’s a key conclusion ...

Joe Donahue: The "Invention of Miracles" is a biography of Alexander Graham Bell, a revisionist biography, if you will. While best known for inventing the telephone, Bell's central work was in Deaf ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Andrew Solomon THE INVENTION OF MIRACLES Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to ...