Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

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    ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

look at his drawings or blueprints, or to advise him
if he could. Of course the result was that he was
deluged with them. And the more mad the idea, the
more patient he was. ‘I don't want to discourage
him,’ he would say, ‘there may be something in it.
But for Joseph Henry I should never have gone on
with the telephone.’