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Alexander Graham Bell

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Alexander Graham Bell
1311 Alexander Graham Bell
Actor John Tench
Seen Invention Convention
Murdoch in Toyland
8 Footsteps
Staring Blindly into the Future
Gender Male
Status Historical
Relationships Mabel Bell, wife
Job Inventor
Comments This is an article about a fictional representation of an historical character, location or other entity.
Alexander Graham Bell is first introduced in Season 5 of Murdoch Mysteries, played by John Tench. 

Mr. Bell returns in Season 11 and Season 13. 

History

Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.  He was a prolific inventor well-known for inventing the telephone, the Harmonic Telegraph (which led to the telephone) and working on improving the Phonograph.  

When Helen Keller remembered the first time she met her future benefactor Alexander Graham Bell as a child, she wrote that she felt he understood her and she "loved him at once."

Appearances and Mentions

Invention Convention

  • Alexander Graham Bell a suspect for a brief time during Murdoch's investigation.
  • Murdoch's admiration for him is revealed. 

Murdoch in Toyland

  • Bell returns to assist Detective William Murdoch in tracking down James Gillies who left Edison Talking Dolls with messages that Gillies intend as clues for Murdoch, leading him to the next clue and possible trap. 
  • Bell assists by helping Murdoch find the frequency of background noise in a recorded cylinders by canceling it out and refine the audio quality, to discover where it may have been recorded 

8 Footsteps

Staring Blindly into the Future

  • Alexander Graham Bell is one of the scheduled speakers at the Pendrick Symposium for the future and the first to greet Murdoch and Ogden – but no one has yet seen Pendrick himself. He shares with them that he has just stopped a fight between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla.
  • Bell offers to introduce Dr. Ogden to Madame Curie, telling H.G. Wells, "'Excuse us, Herbert."

Inventions

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Murdoch Mysteries Recurring Actors and Characters
Daniel Maslany as Detective Watts • Shanice Banton as Violet Hart • Lachlan Murdoch as Henry Higgins • Arwen Humphreys as Margaret Brackenreid • Charles Vandervaart as John Brackenreid • Clare McConnell as Effie Newsome • Bea Santos as Louise Cherry • Peter Keleghan as Terrence Meyers • Peter Stebbings as James Pendrick • Matthew Bennett as Allen Clegg • Nigel Bennett as former Chief Constable Giles • Siobhan Murphy as Ruth Newsome • Shailene Garnett as Nomi Johnston • Stephanie Belding as Nurse Sullivan • Sebastian Pigott as Dr. Dixon • Colin Mochrie as Ralph Fellows • James McGowan as Dr. Forbes • Patrick McKenna as Hamish Slorach • Dmitry Chepovetsky as Nikola Tesla • John Tench as Alexander Graham Bell • Martin Moreau as Theodore Roosevelt • Cyrus Lane as Rupert Newsome • Craig Brown as Eddie Crawford • David Reale as Mr. Clements • Erin Agostino as Nina Bloom • Mouna Traoré as Rebecca James • Jordan Johnson-Hinds as Nate Desmond • Dylan Neal as Jasper Linney • Kristian Bruun as Constable Jackson • Richard Clarkin as Chief Constable Davis • Michael Seater as James Gillies • Rothaford Gray as Alderman William Peyton Hubbard • Cyrus Lane as Roger Newsome • Georgina Reilly as Emily Grace • Charlotte Sullivan as Charlotte (formerly Minerva Fairchild) • Sean Harraher as Constable Worseley • Tamara Hope as Edna Brooks (née Garrison) • Giacomo Gianniotti as Leslie Garland • Nicole Underhay as Margaret Haile • Sarah Gadon as Ruby Ogden • Kate Greenhouse as Sally Pendrick • Stephen McHattie as Harry Murdoch • Geraint Wyn Davies as Arthur Conan Doyle •
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