Excerpt:
The notebooks project is part of an attempt to make the collected research of this team available to other scholars and also to less specialized and casual researchers, by taking advantage of the interface afforded by graphical Web browsers. In particular, having spent the time to make sense of the notebooks, we felt it would be helpful for others to have our transciption and (eventually) interpretations and cross-references, along with the source document.
Annotation:
This University of Virginia site contains one of Alexander Graham Bell's notebooks (1875-1876) from a critical phase in the invention of the telephone. The site primarily consists of about 100 quality images of diagrams from Bell's notebook. There are also data entries and brief notes (transcribed by the editor) available. Most of the experiments listed deal with electricity, magnetism and related metallurgic tests. Various circuits and electrical switches are explored in different configurations. While the site does not contain biographical material, it provides an interesting glimpse into the work of one of America's great inventors.