Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1877.5

ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL (1819-1905) Visible speech: the science ... of universal alphabetics; or Self-interpreting physiological letters, for the writing of all languages in one alphabet Simpkin, Marshall & co. 1867 x, [11]-126 p. illus., diagrs. 27 cm.

Alexander Melville Bell (1819-1905) American educationalist, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 1st of March 1819. He studied under and became the principal assistant of his father, Alexander Bell, an authority on phonetics and defective speech. From 1843 to 1865 he lectured on elocution at the university of Edinburgh, and from 1865 to 1870 at the university of London. In 1870 he became a lecturer on philology at Queen's College, Kingston, Ontario; and in 1881 he removed to Washington, D.C., where he devoted himself to the education of deaf mutes by the “visible speech” method of orthoepy, in which the alphabetical characters of his own invention were graphic diagrams of positions and motions of the organs of speech. He was the author of numerous works on orthoepy, elocution and education.

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