Alexander Graham Bell

**Dirk Skene** · 3rd March 08, 01:24 PM

to Mr. Bell. I just wanna get my hands on the guy that invented the hold button

**Galician** · 3rd March 08, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by Dirk Skene

to Mr. Bell. I just wanna get my hands on the guy that invented the hold button

I thought that it was the one who invented the digitized directory ("press 1 for....) who would be happily led to a tar-and-feather party, by most people in the world.

**McClef** · 3rd March 08, 01:59 PM

Much has happened since "come here, Mr Watson."

I wonder if AGB was ever photographed in a kilt?

If I remember also he was an ancestor of the founders of National Geographic !

**ccga3359** · 3rd March 08, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by McClef

Much has happened since "come here, Mr Watson."

I wonder if AGB was ever photographed in a kilt?

If I remember also he was an ancestor of the founders of National Geographic !

I believe his father-in-law founded the NGS and Bell susceeded him as president. He later contributed to many thing including aeronatics and hydroplane and metal detector to find the bullet of US President James Garfield.
Although us Canadians claim him and the telephone, he certainly was a very rescoureful Scot he made many a contributions both north and south of the border.

AGB aboard his hydroplane

**McClef** · 3rd March 08, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

I believe his father-in-law founded the NGS and Bell susceeded him as president.

Yes you are right Grant it was Gardiner Greene Hubbard, father-in-law and financial backer of Alexander Graham Bell and first president of the Bell Telephone Company.

I was thinking of Bell's daughter marrying Gilbert H. Grosvenor who Bell appointed as Editor of National Geographic and who then oversaw the rise and expansion of the magazine. The editorship is still in the hands of the Grosvenor family today.