Today we toured the Alexander Graham Bell museum located near our campground in Baddeck NS. Bell was much more than the inventor of the telephone. He was part of the group that pioneered the first airplane flight in Canada. In addition he experimented with ocean going hydrofoils attain tremendous speeds on Bras D’or lake. When he moved to the United States from Scotland, he worked with the deaf including Helen Keller, teaching them to speak. From his work with the deaf the idea for the telephone was born.    Bell loved everything about nature and wanted to become one with it. One night he went outside in a bathing suit during the tremendous thunderstorm. He came in dripping wet happy as a lark.  He loved Beddeck NS because it reminded him of Scotland.   His experiments, subsequent inventions, and humanitarianism is his legacy.

Silver Dart

Gas tank from the “Silver Dart” airplane

Pieces of the original hydrofoil