Stop 26 Baddeck and Glace Bay Nova Scotia

We departed Breton Highlands a day ahead of schedule to take some of the travel duties off the 2nd.  On the 2nd we have our 7 hour Ferry, followed by 3 hours of driving to reach Gros Morne.

We stopped in Baddeck and visited an Alexander Graham Bell museum in that town.  Bell had a lavish home there.  He did hydrofoil research.  I learned of he and his father's interest in the deaf.  His grandfather invented a system of writing sounds based on how the muscles of the mouth and larynx moved to create the sound.  It was called Visible Speech and was used to aid the deaf in learning to talk.  Bell was also very devoted to the the deaf, something I never learned in elementary school.  He even married a deaf student, Mabel, and I have to wonder if that was part of the origins of Ma Bell.

In nearby Glace Bay, wireless pioneer Marconi sent the first transatlantic telegraph message.  He built a huge antenna on the cliffs there to accomplish the transmission.

Bell invites Marconi to visit him at his home in Baddeck.

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