Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site

Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site
Visitor centre at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site
Location	Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada
Built	1954
Website	Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site

National Historic Site of Canada
Designated	1952

Bell's experimental HD-4 hydrofoil in the museum. Designed for anti-submarine duty, it held the world's marine speed record for several years.

The Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site is a 10-hectare (25-acre) property in Baddeck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, overlooking the Bras d'Or Lakes.^[1] The site includes the Alexander Graham Bell Museum, a unit of Parks Canada, which is the only museum in the world containing the actual artifacts and documents from Bell's years of experimental work in Baddeck. This site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1952.

Museum

Entrance to Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site of Canada

The museum features artifacts donated in 1955 from the Bell family's personal museum, located in the Kite House at Beinn Bhreagh.^[1] The museum also features memorabilia associated with Bell's experiments, including: the original HD-4 hull of a hydrofoil boat that set the world speed record here in Baddeck of over 70 MPH in 1919; a full-scale replica of that boat; the AEA Silver Dart which in 1909 J.A.D. MacCurdy piloted up into the air over the ice of Baddeck Bay to become the first heavier than air craft to be flown in Canada and possibly the British Empire -- plus many other exhibits and documents from Bell's years of research activities on the transmission of speech and sound by wire and by light, as well as his experiments with kites, planes and high speed boats. ^[1] The museum also features displays relating to Bell's work with the deaf and how it led to the invention of the telephone.

In addition to its displays, the museum features an observation deck on the roof of the building which offers a view of Alexander Graham Bell's Beinn Bhreagh estate across the Bay. For more, see Bras d'Or Lakes.^[2]

References

1 2 3 Alexander Graham Bell. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
↑ Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site of Canada, Parks Canada website.

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Articles related to Baddeck, Nova Scotia

Places and Buildings in Baddeck	Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site Baddeck Academy Baddeck (Crown Jewel) Airport Baddeck River Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia Bell Bay Golf Club Bras d'Or House Bras d'Or Yacht Club Gilbert H. Grosvenor Hall Kidston Island Kidston Island Lighthouse St. Mark's Masonic Lodge Saint Peter's and Saint John's Anglican Church Spectacle Island Game Sanctuary Telegraph House Uisge Ban Falls Uisge Ban Falls Provincial Park Victoria County Court House

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Ships and Aircraft Related to Baddeck	AEA Cygnet AEA Silver Dart Bell Oionus I Canadian Aerodrome Baddeck No. 1 and No. 2 HD-4 Hubbard Monoplane HMCS Baddeck (K147) HMCS Baddeck (R-103) Bell Boatyard

Notable Residents	Frederick Walker Baldwin Alexander Graham Bell H. Percy Blanchard Charles James Campbell Rachel Davis Simon Gibbons, Reverend Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor Mabel H. Grosvenor Mabel Gardiner Hubbard George Kennan William Kidston Moses E. Kiley Carleton L. MacMillan Arthur Williams McCurdy David McCurdy John Alexander Douglas McCurdy William F. McCurdy John Archibald McDonald James Charles McKeagney Aulay MacAulay Morrison Kendall Myers Michael A. Newton George W. Rice Barclay Edmund Tremaine Jessica Wong

Alexander Graham Bell

Life and family	Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Melville Bell Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia Bell House (Virginia) Bras d'Or Lake Canadian Parliamentary Motion on Alexander Graham Bell Chichester Bell David Fairchild Graham Fairchild Edwin S. Grosvenor Gardiner Greene Hubbard Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor Gilbert Melville Grosvenor Hubbard Bell Grossman Pillot Memorial Mabel Gardiner Hubbard Mabel H. Grosvenor Melville Bell Grosvenor Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf Telephone Cases

People	Anthony Pollok Charles Williams Jr. Glenn Curtiss Marcellus Bailey Thomas Cowherd Thomas Selfridge Thomas A. Watson Walter Seymour Allward

Works	AEA Cygnet AEA June Bug AEA Red Wing AEA Silver Dart AEA White Wing Aerial Experiment Association Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Bell Boatyard Bell Oionus I Bell System Bell Telephone Company Canadian Aerodrome Baddeck No. 1 and No. 2 Canadian Aerodrome Company Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech Dictation machine Edison Gower-Bell Telephone Company of Europe, Ltd. Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy Graphophone HD-4 Hubbard Monoplane Life Extension Institute National Geographic Society National Telephone Company New England Telephone and Telegraph Company Oriental Telephone Company Phonograph cylinder Photophone Visible Speech Volta Laboratory and Bureau

Tributes	Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site Alexander Graham Bell School (Illinois) Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes Bell Homestead National Historic Site Bell Telephone Memorial Graham Bell Island HMCS Bras d'Or IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal Pioneers, a Volunteer Network Story of Alexander Graham Bell

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Coordinates: 46°06′10″N 60°44′45″W / 46.1028°N 60.7458°W / 46.1028; -60.7458

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