Another photo of Alex Graham Bell with his wife, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard and daughters. From the time of Mabel’s courtship with Graham Bell in 1873, until his death in 1922, Mabel became and remained the most significant influence in his life. Folklore held that Bell undertook telecommunication experiments in an attempt to restore her hearing which had been destroyed by disease close to her fifth birthday, leaving her completely deaf for the remainder of her life


