Bell Boatyard and Related Topics

Baddeck

Village in northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada.

From 1885 to 1928 the estate included the Bell Boatyard which made both experimental and traditional boats.

Alexander Graham Bell

Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.

Melville House, the Bells' first home in North America, now a National Historic Site of Canada

Bell, top right, providing pedagogical instruction to teachers at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes, 1871. Throughout his life, he referred to himself as "a teacher of the deaf".

Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent drawing, March 7, 1876

The master telephone patent, 174465, March 7, 1876

An actor playing Bell in a 1926 film holds Bell's first telephone transmitter

Bell at the opening of the long-distance line from New York to Chicago in 1892

Alexander Graham Bell, his wife Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, and their daughters Elsie (left) and Marian ca. 1885

The Brodhead–Bell mansion, the Bell family residence in Washington, D.C., from 1882 to 1889

Alexander Graham Bell in his later years

Photophone receiver, one half of Bell's wireless optical communication system, ca. 1880

Bell statue by A. E. Cleeve Horne in front of the Bell Telephone Building of Brantford, Ontario, The Telephone City. (Brantford Heritage Inventory, City of Brantford)

A quote by Alexander Graham Bell engraved in the stone wall within the Peace Chapel of the International Peace Garden (in Manitoba Canada and North Dakota, USA).

The Bell Museum, Cape Breton, part of the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site

Bell, an alumnus of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LL.D.) at the university in 1906

Bell also built the Bell Boatyard on the estate, employing up to 40 people building experimental craft as well as wartime lifeboats and workboats for the Royal Canadian Navy and pleasure craft for the Bell family.

HD-4 hydrofoil at the Alexander Graham Bell museum

HD-4

Early research hydrofoil watercraft developed by the scientist Alexander Graham Bell.

It was designed and built at the Bell Boatyard on Bell's Beinn Bhreagh estate near Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

Joe Carstairs

Wealthy British power boat racer known for her speed, eccentric lifestyle, and gender nonconformity.

Joe Carstairs in 1928 or 1929, photographed by Arnold Genthe

Intrigued by the hydrofoil designs of Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin in Nova Scotia, Carstairs ordered a 30 ft hydrofoil boat from the Bell Boatyard in Baddeck, Nova Scotia which was intended to achieve 115 mph and capture the Harmsworth Cup.

Municipality of the County of Victoria

County municipality on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

In 1851, Victoria County was split from Cape Breton county and Baddeck became the site for the new county's jail and court house, and later the site of Alexander Graham Bell's Beinn Bhreagh, a summer residence and research centre, and the Bell Boatyard.