lewis letter, by doing alexander graham bell's application drawings, he was right there at the salvation of telecommunication and electronics. also because of what he did with illumination and these are important things all around the world. modern lights would not be able to exist without artificial lighting. i think that his invention is very important. doctor charles has saved so many lives and impacted so many lives because of the knowledge that we have through the science of blood typing. again, this is a very important contribution worldwide. i think and i hope that answers your questions. sorry don't have time to answer all three. >> let's move on to charlotte in south bend, indiana. >> yes, hello. what an honor it is to talk to you. i wonder if you talk about the book you wrote about the buffalo soldiers and the significance of the buffalo soldiers to american history reign. >> well, i think the industry of buffalo soldiers is important to american history because the westward experience of our nation was a key element in to us becoming a world power. we could not have done that

he had been exhumed from his burial plot in italy by none other than alexander graham bell and a snowstorm in 1903 and then after he had been brought here to the united states in the building they had exhume him once more in 1973 for the forensic anthropologist at the national history museum to have a chance to see if we could learn anything more about him from his bones. but in the course of opening up the with a blowtorch they were on soldering the coffin and they cut the silk lining on fire. so after all smithson had been through the papers and the fire and everything he was practically almost destroyed entirely. but the work men ran down the hall to the water fountain and came running back and saved the day. so anyway, again, even with those stories just smithson as a bunch of bones and not really a person. and i went to england to do this and after i was working for the museum, the historian of the institution called me and said if you are refering to learn anything about smith's and it's going to be in england if you want to poke around. and i thought that sounded like a lot of fun a

>> yes, they love alexander graham bell's letter. he wrote about a trip that he's on, and he has seen a sting ray and he sends his daughters the lips of sting ray and the tail and he sends them through the mail. he was a wonderful educator of children and an educator of the deaf. but in teaching children, he felt strongly that they should learn by doing, and here is an example of him. he wants his children to see what a sting ray looks like, and he puts it in the mail to them. >> also there's a letter to his daughter when she was 21. >> yes. page 161. the corny jokes? >> yes, what was the point of the jokes? >> he was busy crunching numbers, so to speak, working on data that had to do with genetics and the deaf. i think that it was a break from his work. he loved corny jokes and sat down and took break from his work and sent these jokes, and i include it in the book because they are so corny and to see this incredible scientist and inventor, that he would spend the time to send this to his daughter i thought was hysterical. >> you po

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