Alexander Melville Bell

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educator human phonetician

Alexander Melville Bell was a 19th-century British-Canadian phonetician and educator best known for his work on visible speech and as the father of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell.

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	educator → human → phonetician →
birthDate	1819-03-01 →
birthPlace	Edinburgh → Scotland →
child	Alexander Graham Bell → Edward Charles Bell → Melville James Bell →
countryOfCitizenship	Canada → United Kingdom →
deathDate	1905-08-07 →
developed	Visible Speech alphabet →
educatedAt	University of Edinburgh →
employer	Alexander Graham Bell's School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech → University of Edinburgh → University of London →
era	19th century →
familyName	Bell →
fatherOf	Alexander Graham Bell →
fieldOfWork	elocution → phonetics → speech education →
givenName	Alexander →
influenced	Alexander Graham Bell → development of speech teaching for the deaf →
knownFor	development of Visible Speech system → work in phonetics and elocution →
language	English →
movedTo	Canada →
movement	19th-century phonetics →
name	Alexander Melville Bell →
nationality	British → Canadian →
notableWork	The Principles of Speech and Vocal Physiology → Visible Speech → World English →
occupation	author → phonetician → teacher →
placeOfDeath	Washington, D.C. →
residence	Brantford, Ontario → Edinburgh → London → Washington, D.C. →
spouse	Eliza Grace Symonds Bell →
workedOn	systems for teaching the deaf to speak →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alexander Graham Bell →	father
Eliza Grace Symonds Bell →	hasRelative
Alexander Graham Bell →	influencedBy
Alexander Melville Bell →	name
Eliza Grace Symonds Bell →	spouse