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Historic site in Baddeck, Nova Scotia
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
.
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The site is a unit of Parks Canada, the national park system, and includes the
Alexander Graham Bell
National Historic Site, which contains the largest repository of artifacts and documents from Bell's years of experimental work in Baddeck. This site was designated a
National Historic Site
in 1952.
Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site
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The site features artifacts donated in 1955 from the Bell family's personal museum, located in the Kite House at
Beinn Bhreagh
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The site also features memorabilia associated with Bell's experiments, including: the original hull of a hydrofoil boat, the HD-4, that set a world marine speed record in
Baddeck
by reaching speeds of over 112 km/h (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 controlled heavier-than-air craft to be flown in 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.
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The museum also features displays relating to Bell's work with in the field of
deaf
education and how it led to the
invention of the telephone
. The Alexander Graham Bell Historic Site was designed by Canadian government architect O. Howard Leicester, R.I.B.A. The architects for the Museum building were the Canadian architecture firm of Wood, Blachford, Ship (A. Campbell Wood, Hugh W. Blachford, Harold Ship).
In addition to its displays, the museum features an observation deck on the roof of the building offering a view of Bell's
Beinn Bhreagh
estate, across the bay.
Beinn Bhreagh
is a separate National Historic Site, still privately owned and occupied by Bell's descendants. It is not in the national park system and is not open to the public. (For more information, see
Bras d'Or Lakes
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See also
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- Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes
- Alexander Graham Bell School
, Chicago, Illinois
- Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia
, the Bell estate on the peninsula of the same name
- Bell Boatyard
- Bell Homestead National Historic Site
, Brantford, Ontario
- Bell Telephone Memorial
, Brantford, Ontario
- IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
- Index of Alexander Graham Bell articles
- National Historic Sites of Canada
- Parks Canada
- Volta Laboratory and Bureau
, Washington, D.C.
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