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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Visible speech, (search)

Visible speech, A system of communication devised by Alexander Melville Bell, who called it a universal self-interpreting physiological alphabet. It comprises thirty symbols representing the forms of the mouth when uttering sounds. About fifty symbols, the inventor asserts, would be required to represent the sounds of all known languages. He expounded his systern to the Society of Arts, London, March 14, 1866, and published a book in 1867.

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