Alexander Graham Bell dies. Teaching the deaf to speak was his primary goal in life and career. Incidentally, he was also the inventor of the telephone (until the U.S. Congress awarded the invention to Meucci). He also worked for the journal Science, establishing it on solid financial footing, and also directed the Smithsonian Institution for several years. He also won the prestigious Volta Prize, established by Napoleon Bonaparte, for the invention of the telephone. Public schools and associations for the deaf still bear his name.
