Monday, July 21

Travel day from Sherbrooke, NS to Bras D'Ors, NS with a stop in BADDECK. This was the home of Alexander Grapham Bell. There is a hands on museum in the quaint waterfront town. Bell choose Baddeck because it was so much like his childhood home in Scotland. Here he worked on the telephone, a by product of helping deaf children hear. He also designed the first type of an Iron Lung, an xray machine to detect bullets in a body (after Pres Garfield was shot) and several aviation items. Perhaps his best in aviation was adding ailerons to the wing to be able to turn it better. Another invention was the hydrofoil for a boat. With the help of aircraft engines he was able to increase the speed of a boat from 8 knots to over 70 by using hydrofoils on it. Rain was with us all day.