Alexander Graham Bell Full Art card from Lost Chapters — Full Art: Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell: Gold Character

Alexander Graham Bell (1847 to 1922) was a Scottish-born inventor and teacher of deaf students who received the U.S. patent for the telephone on March 7, 1876. Three days later, on March 10, he spoke the first intelligible words over a telephone wire to his assistant, Thomas Watson, in Boston.

Cost: 3 crystals
Type: Character · Inventor
Power / Health: 2 / 3
Color: Gold (Inventors & Industry)
Rarity: Rare
Set: Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)

On play: Build 1 Tinker Token with Explore.

Communication revolutionary whose greatest invention was convincing others to listen.

Real history

The real history

Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Speech ran in the family. His mother was deaf, and his father, Alexander Melville Bell, created Visible Speech, a set of symbols showing how the lips, tongue and throat form each sound.

In 1871 Bell began teaching at Sarah Fuller's school for deaf children in Boston, and the next year he opened his own school of vocal physiology there. One of his private pupils was Mabel Hubbard, who was deaf. They married in 1877.

Bell also experimented with improving the telegraph, working with his assistant, Thomas Watson. He received U.S. Patent No. 174,465 on March 7, 1876. On March 10, in their attic workshop at 5 Exeter Place in Boston, Bell called to Watson through the device. It was the first intelligible speech sent over an electric wire. Bell and his partners formed the Bell Telephone Company in July 1877.

Bell kept inventing. His photophone sent sound on a beam of light, and he later worked on aircraft and hydrofoil boats. He also helped found the National Geographic Society in 1888.

Deaf education remained central to his life, and it is the most debated part of his legacy. Bell pushed for teaching deaf students speech and lip reading instead of sign language, and in 1883 he warned against deaf people marrying one another. Many in the signing Deaf community still criticize that influence. In 1887 he founded the Volta Bureau in Washington, D.C. He died on August 2, 1922.

Sources

Alexander Graham Bell, National Inventors Hall of Fame
Milestones: First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric Wire, 1876, IEEE, Engineering and Technology History Wiki
Alexander Graham Bell and His Role in Oral Education, Social Welfare History Project, VCU Libraries
Alexander Graham Bell, 1847 to 1922, A History of Speech, Language Pathology, University at Buffalo

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Game lore (invented)

In the game's story

In the game's invented story, Bell arrives in Marginalia with a coil of wire over his shoulder and is appalled that the only way to send a message is by letter or rider. Within a month he strings a telephone line from the Archive to the Folded Corner, a full day's ride, with help from the Bridgecrew and the goblins of the Cogwarrens. Now news of a rift reaches the Guardsmen in minutes. He also spends two afternoons a week teaching deaf Marginalian children.

In Lost Chapters' frame story, history's heroes fall into an invented world called Marginalia. That story is fiction; the history on this page is real.

How the card plays

Bell costs 3 crystals and is a 2/3 Rare Inventor. When he arrives, Build 1 Tinker Token that has Explore, so that 1/1 can only be blocked by characters with Explore.

That makes him a cheap way to add an evasive attacker to an Inventors deck. Under the Tesla Leader, both Bell and his Tinker get +1/+0 from Tesla's passive, so the token charges as a 2/1 that only Explore characters can block.

Andrew Carnegie, Steel Hero gives your tokens another +1/+0, which turns the Explore Tinker into a real threat. Ring, Ring! fits his theme: a Counter that draws 2 on your rival's turn. Play Bell on turn 2 or 3, then charge with his Tinker once it has been on the field a turn.

Playable in decks led by Nikola Tesla, and by any Traveler Leader whose colors include Gold.
In the Tesla starter deck (2 copies). Deck code: LC2-BV8BYAFhAWICYwFkAWUCZgFnAWgBaQFqAWsCbAFtAm4BbwFwAXEBcgFzAnQBdQF2AXcBeAJ5AnoBewF8AX0BfgF_AXiK
A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.