The young Scotsman who had 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...
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