" But I have also to thank the Lord that He has given me His
blessing in my calling and in my family, and has bestowed more good upon
me than I have known how to ask of Him. The Lord has helped hitherto;
He will help yet further.'
Reis was buried in the cemetery of Friedrichsdorff, and in 1878, after
the introduction of the speaking telephone, the members of the Physical
Society of Frankfort erected over his grave an obelisk of red sandstone
bearing a medallion portrait.
CHAPTER VIII.
GRAHAM BELL.
The first to produce a practicable speaking telephone was Alexander
Graham Bell. He was born at Edinburgh on March 1, 1847, and comes of a
family associated with the teaching of elocution. His grandfather in
London, his uncle in Dublin, and his father, Mr. Andrew Melville Bell,
in Edinburgh, were all professed elocutionists. The latter has
published a variety of works on the subject, several of which are well
known, especially his treatise on Visible Speech, which appeared in
Edinburgh in 1868. In this he explains his ingenious method of
instructing deaf mutes, by means of their eyesight, how to articulate
words, and also how to read what other persons are saying by the motions
of their lips. Graham Bell, his distinguished son, was educated at the
high school of Edinburgh, and subsequently at Warzburg, in Germany,
where he obtained the degree of Ph.
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