Bell’s Funny Story

• 作者: Helen Byers
• 来源期刊: 语言教育
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: EVERYONE night interrupted INTRUSION worked GRAHAM allowed FORCED TELEPHONE invent
• 年，卷（期）: 1987,（2）
• 页码范围: 44-
• 页数: 1页
• 分类号: G6

摘要

<正> Alexander Graham Bell, who invented thetelephone in 1876, hated to be interrupted by phonecalls. He was a loner and usually worked late at night when everyone was asleep. He was annoyed when forced to come out of what his gregarious wife, Mabel, called his 'hermit cell'. Phones were an intrusion into his mental life. He banned phones from the study in his house, He was