The Invention of Miracles
Katie Booth
"Meticulously researched, crackling with insights, and rich in novelistic detail" (Steve Silberman), this"provocative, sensitive, beautifully written biography" (Sylvia Nasar) tells the true—and troubling—story of Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness.
"Researched and written through the Deaf perspective, this marvelously engaging history will have us rethinking the invention of the telephone." —Jaipreet Virdi, PhD, author of Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach deaf students to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech reading machine.
The Invention of Miracles takes a "stirring" (The New York Times Book Review),...
"Researched and written through the Deaf perspective, this marvelously engaging history will have us rethinking the invention of the telephone." —Jaipreet Virdi, PhD, author of Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach deaf students to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech reading machine.
The Invention of Miracles takes a "stirring" (The New York Times Book Review),...
년:
2021
출판사:
Simon & Schuster
언어:
english
ISBN 10:
1501167103
ISBN 13:
9781501167102
파일:
EPUB, 5.67 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2021