Biography & Autobiography Science & Technology
Genius at Work (old)
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1991
- Category
- Science & Technology
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921054672
- Publish Date
- Jan 1991
- List Price
- $24.95
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Description
In 1885, nine years after his invention of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell and his wife built a house and laboratory in Nova Scotia, where they summered for the next thirty-seven years. In Genius at Work, Eber weaves together the reminiscences of neighbours with excerpts from family journals, diaries, and letters, and creates an engaging account of this energetic, exuberant, and occasionally eccentric man. Equally fascinating are the photographs that document his work and family. Together with the text, they shed new light on the career and character of this great inventor.
About the author
Dorothy Harley Eber is the author of Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life, When the Whalers Were Up North: Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic and, with Peter Pitseolak, People from Our Side: A Life Story With Photographs and Oral Biography. She lives in