Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been a professor at the struggling experimental school in Northampton, Mass, was naturally delighted that his invention had proved such a success. But when he sat down to write his mother the news, he was not thinking of his own fame or fortune. "Now," wrote Alexander Graham Bell, "we shall have money enough to teach speech to little deaf children." As a matter of fact, had he not been trying to find an instrument to help such children, he might never have started experimenting with the telephone in the first place...
Today, at Northampton's Clarke School for The Deaf, a telephone is still called an Alexander. But to the school's faculty, the invention is not what Bell is primarily remembered for. He was for 51 years teacher, adviser and president of the board. More important, he was, like the school, a pioneer in persuading the U.S. that a child born deaf can be taught to speak rather than have to rely on the language of signs. Founded in 1867, Clarke has the oldest wholly oral program for the deaf...
...Powered Telephone. When Bell Telephone Laboratories told about its silicon solar battery (TIME, May 3, 1954), it promised to find practical work for it as soon as possible. Last week Bell told how one of these batteries (432 quarter-sized silicon disks in an aluminum frame) is gathering solar energy for a rural telephone line near Americus, Ga. At night or in dark weather the line works on storage batteries charged when the sun is shining...
...body-stamping plant, with enough capacity to supply all passenger-car divisions with fenders, body panels, deck lids and doors. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. will spend $90 million to expand its Ravenswood, W. Va. sheet-and-foil plant, add to other facilities in Maryland, Louisiana and Washington. New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. decided to put out $100 million worth of new securities over the next two years to keep up with the growing population and record construction boom...
...hear. Hardly a single routine shot of rolling countrysides deaden the 20 minutes running time. Morgan and his associate Richard Harris have concentrated on details: a few chickens shaking the water of a rainstorm form their feathers, the closeup of a ringing church bell, a frog in a pond. And then there are the people of Auvergne themselves, their faces caught haggling over the price of a bill at the fair and their hands weighing out fish in a market-place. Although Songs of the Auvergne is photographed only in black and white, the camera-work in it is unusually...