1956 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL magazine article, new Museum opening in Nova Scotia

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Selling is a 1956 magazine article about:
Alexander Graham Bell
and the
Alexander Graham Bell Museum
Title: Alexander Graham Bell Museum: Tribute to Genius
Author: The Honourable Jean Lesage, Minister of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources, Canada.
Subtitled "A Canadian Memorial Reveals New facts About the Work of an American Scientist”
Quoting the first page “Recently we Canadians acquired-in trust for citizens of all the world-a priceless collection of experimental models, inventions, photographs, and notes that reflects the extraordinarily versatile mind of Alexander Graham Bell.
As I delved through this remarkable material, I found my thoughts going back to the birth of the Renaissance and the emergence of a new type of man-a daring, original thinker with a mind that tirelessly questioned and probed. So broad were his inquiries into Nature's endless enigmas that we know him as the Universal Man. Leonardo da Vinci is an example that immediately comes to mind.
Modern times, with their emphasis upon specialization, have produced only a few such men, among them Dr. Bell. We recall him as the inventor of the telephone, but his researches led him into many fields, including aeronautics, marine engineering, medicine, electrical science, genetics, eugenics, and the science of sound and speech. Everything seemed grist for his mental mill, and often his thoughts and experiments were far ahead of his day.
It is this engrossing but relatively little-known aspect of the inventor's life that Canada will portray in the new Alexander Graham Bell Museum at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, near the distinguished scientist's beloved estate, Beinn Bhreagh. Government officials of Canada and the Province of Nova Scotia, and members of the Bell family, will formally open the building August 18.
Here the visitor will see a remarkable legacy to science: scores of original items produced at the laboratory on Dr. Bell's estate. Some reveal researches never before made public.
Take, for example, the museum's collection of ingenious "winged fly-wheels," as Dr. Bell called them: small three-bladed propellers set in metal rings. They date from the 1890's, and today we would classify them as a form of helicopter rotor, for the inventor launched them vertically into the air.
Some he powered with a mechanical device, but on others he attached rockets at the blade ends. One large nonflying model, unringed and with a single blade, rotated by jet thrust! Tubes within the propeller fed alcohol vapor to the blade tips; the vapor, when ignited, spun the device.
Dr. Bell began the experiments in 1891, more than a decade before the Wright brothers' first successful powered flight…"
7” x 10”, 29 pages, 32 B&W & 4 color photos
These are pages carefully removed from an actual 1956 magazine.
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