English: Original caption: This outlook tower, unique in design and construction, was recently erected by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, at his summer home in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. The tower reaches a height of nearly eighty feet, and yet neither scaffolding nor derricks were employed in building it. It is made of the tetrahedral cells invented by Dr. Bell. This considerable structure weighs less than five tons, and yet can carry a great weight. It i.s remarkable, not only for its strength and lightness, as well as cheapness, but also for the fact that it was put together in about ten days by several unskilled laborers, and that every part of the work was done on the ground. No one was obliged to leave the ground until the lower stood erect. Photo: J.A.D. McCurdy.

Identifier: fromeveryl00grosscenesrich (find matches)
Title: Scenes from every land, second series; a collection of 250 illustracions picturing the people, natural phenomena, and animal life in all parts of the world. With one map and a bibliography of gazetteers, atlases, and books descriptive of foreign countries and natural history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1875-1966 National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Subjects: Views Physical anthropology
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National geographic society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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