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A minute of telephone silence for Bell

Історичний портрет Белла для контексту; не знімок похорону / Historical Bell portrait for context; not a funeral photograph.

Белл на відкритті лінії Нью-Йорк—Чикаго, 1892; історичний контекст телефонної мережі, не знімок хвилини мовчання / Bell at the New York–Chicago line opening, 1892; network history context, not a photograph of the minute of silence.

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Історичний портрет Белла для контексту; не знімок похорону / Historical Bell portrait for context; not a funeral photograph.

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Alexander Graham Bell died in Nova Scotia on 2 August 1922. The minute of telephone silence in the United States and Canada is associated with his funeral on 4 August, rather than the day he died. An archived historical account preserved by Library and Archives Canada reports that telephone service stopped for one minute during the burial; PBS also describes a nationwide minute of silence. It was a symbolic tribute to the inventor, rather than an ordinary technical outage.