shortly thereafter, alexander graham bell got in touch with him. it also seems true but it is hard to believe that curtis had no information and insight. in the modern aircraft today. they have two to three pages of the landing gear and the steering wheel. first one to take off from the ship to develop the airplane that can land on the ship the first workable hydroplane the scientist that wilbur was that he was an absolutely brilliant innovator. after that meeting that is what caused the right of such animus. they took into the consortium of investors really rich guys started by j.p. morgan and included the belmont and vanderbilt and very other wealthy people. but the other investors, just to give you an idea of how powerful j.p. morgan was. he was president and vice president and wilbur simply refused. he pursued his patent case against curtis and micromanaging it, talking to the lawyers the last letter before he died was to frederick who was his patent attorney and not a family member decrying how long it was taking. he died of typhoid fever and

alexander graham bell conducted many experiments here and was one of the founders of the national geographic society. but the franklin school was a very advanced school recognized internationally, and it has just been -- it was a homeless shelter and sitting empty for years and now it is going to be an art space. so the building will be preserved and franklin square is going to be spruced up. it is greatly in need, even of grass, franklinly. yeah, but it is something, and admire these people, they watch it every day and they are a group of people who live in washington who are very activists. >> let me go in the back. no, right here in the middle. thank you. >> fantastic talk, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> what would be your recommendations, if you could have just one, for best undiscovered d.c. gem, off the beaten path, off the usual guidebook. >> i mentioned a couple the japanese memorial. the lincoln cottage. one that i would recommend highly to all of you before the summer is over. if you want to get your patriotic juices flowing, if you go to the marine war memorial, they have c

alexander graham bell conducted many of his experiments here and was one of the founders of the national geographic society. at the franklin school was very advanced school, recognized internationally. it was a homeless shelter. it has been sitting empty for years. now it is going to be an arts space, so the building will be preserved, and franklin square is going to be spruced up. it's greatly in need even of grass, frankly. i admire these people. they watch it every day. there are a group of people who live in washington who are very activist. >> let me go to the back. right here in the middle. >> fantastic talk. thank you very much. what would be your recommendation if you could choose just one for that undiscovered, off the beaten path, out of the usual guidebook? >> i mentioned a couple. the japanese memorial, the lincoln cottage. one that i forgot to mention that i would recommend highly to all of you before the summer is over for all of you, if you really want to get your patriotic juices flowing, if you go to the marine war memorial, commonly known as the iwo jima memorial, they

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. >> alexander graham bell said, mr. watson, come here, i want to see you.amuel morse keyed in, from the bible, what has god wrought. what did you say and who did you talk to? >> i have no idea where the idea came from. it occurred to me that our enemy was bell systems. and the guy that was running the bell system program, by no means an enemy, but he was certainly a rival, was a guy named joel engel. joel, i apologize to you, if you are watching this broadcast. i called joel. amazingly enough -- talk about a historic moment. he answered the phone himself, which in itself was an unusual event. i told him, joel, i am calling you from a cellular phone. but a real cellular phone. a personal, portable, hand-held cellular phone. and there was silence at the other end of the line, for obvious reasons. and joel was very polite to me. he still is. but that turned out to be a historical moment, at least for me. ask how long did it take him to pick himself up off the floor for the event? >> how long did it take? >> to get him off the floor. how important was the compe