Chichester Alexander Bell (1848–1924) was an American chemist and inventor. He was a
first cousin of
Alexander Graham Bell, and instrumental in developing improved versions of the
phonograph.[1]
Life
Bell was born in
Dublin, Ireland in 1848 to Professor
David Charles Bell (1817–1903) and Ellen Adine Highland.[2][3] David Charles was an elder brother to Professor
Alexander Melville Bell, the renowned British authority on elocution and speech.[4]
He then returned to University College, London to continue his scientific research. In 1887, he published "Sympathetic Vibration of Jets" in the Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society.[8] Chichester Bell also helped establish the
Edison Bell company. The Edison Bell company was established on 30 November 1892 in London to sell phonographs produced by the Edison United Phonograph Company.[9]
U.S. patent 336,081Transmitter for Electric Telephone Lines, filed May 1884, issued February 1886
U.S. patent 336,082Jet Microphone or Apparatus for Transmitting Sounds by Means of Jets, filed May 1884, issued February 1886
U.S. patent 336,083Telephone Transmitter, Filed April 1885, issued February 1886
U.S. patent 341,212Reproducing Sounds from Phonograph Records (without using a stylus or causing wear), filed November 1885, issued May 1886 (with Alexander Bell and Charles Tainter)
U.S. patent 341,213Transmitting And Recording Sounds By Radiant Energy, filed November 1885, issued May 1886 (with Alexander Bell and Charles Tainter)
U.S. patent 341,214Recording and Reproducing Speech and Other Sounds (improvements include compliant cutting head, wax surface, and constant linear velocity disk), filed June 1885, issued May 1886 (with Charles Tainter)
^Churchill, John.
Medical News, The Medical Times and Gazette: A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism and News,
Oxford University, 3 July 1869, p. 23.
^Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to William H. Forbes, 2 February 1881, Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, US Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
^Chemical Society of Washington. "Washington: Printed for the Society, 1886, List of Members", Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Washington, No. 1, 12 January 1884, to 14 January 1886, page 7.
^Bell, Chichester A.
Sympathetic Vibration of JetsArchived 11 November 2012 at the
Wayback Machine, Pharmaceutical Journal & Transactions: A Weekly Record of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences, Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, J. Churchill, 1887, pp.93-97. Abstract of a paper read before the
Royal Society on 13 May 1887.