(person) by Seqram Thu Aug 31 2000 at 23:00:11

The father of Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone). The senior Bell, like his son, was an educator of the Deaf, and he invented a phonetic alphabet called "Visible Speech," for transcribing the sounds of spoken language more precisely than normal orthography permits.

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