Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Mon May 11 14:00:54 EDT 2015


The patent for his telephone was granted in 1876.  He became an American
citizen 6 years later in 1882.  He spent a lot of his life in Canada,
ending up in Baddeck, Cape Breton, where there is a fascinating museum
devoted to his work which included many inventions other than the telephone.

Pete
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On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 11/05/15 20:43, Terence Heaford wrote:
>
>> Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
>>
>
> I am surprised, wrong, and stand corrected.
>
> BUT . . . did he self-identify as a Scot at the time he "invented" the
> telephone?
>
> My children have self-identified themselves as Scots, British, Bulgarian
> and American at various times in
> their lives; all of those self-identifications are equally valid as far as
> I can see.
>
> Richmond.
>
>
>> All the best
>>
>> Terry
>>
>>  On 11 May 2015, at 18:31, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Not really: as far as I know, his father was Scots, while he, himself
>>> was born in the USA.
>>>
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