what was alexander graham bell known for?
Telephone
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 Public interest in the scandal eventually faded . Nevertheless , newspaper coverage reinforced negative attitudes about male homosexuality as an aristocratic vice , presenting the telegraph boys as corrupted and exploited by members of the upper class . This attitude reached its climax a few years later when Oscar Wilde was tried for gross indecency as the result of his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas . 

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 The scandal proved an embarrassment to the reputation of the Royal Navy , then still the world 's largest , and it was satirised at home and abroad through editorials , cartoons , and even a comic jazz oratorio composed by Erwin Schulhoff . One consequence of the damaging affair was an undertaking from the Admiralty to review the means by which naval officers might bring complaints against the conduct of their superiors . 

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 Nor is this theme of cutthroat competition limited to prestidigitation : the script incorporates the popular notion that Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison were directly engaged in the War of Currents , a rivalry over electrical standards , which appears in the film in parallel to Borden and Angier 's competition for magical supremacy . In the book , Tesla and Edison serve as foils for Borden and Angier , respectively . 

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 He was twice married , survived by his second wife and his only son Samuel . He died in 1672 , leaving an estate in present @-@ day Chelsea , Massachusetts and a large house in Boston . The estate became embroiled in legal action lasting more than 100 years after his will was challenged by his son and eventually set aside . Bellingham is immortalized in Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's The New England Tragedies , both of which fictionalize events from colonial days . 

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 Although never gaining wide fame , Ali had a dedicated following on the vaudeville circuit in the United States . He performed for heads of state including Tsar Nicholas II of Russia . Judy Garland named him her favorite vaudevillian and David Blaine identified Ali as his favorite magician . Portions of his act were captured in the short film Strange as It Seems ( 1930 ) and in Politiquerias ( 1931 ) , the Spanish @-@ language version of Laurel and Hardy 's Chickens Come Home . Two documentaries contain footage of Ali taken from Politiquerias : 1977 's Gizmo ! , and 1999 's Vaudeville . Ali 's unusual gastric abilities led to rumors that the Rockefeller Institute had offered a large sum of money to obtain his stomach post @-@ mortem . After he died in England , his body was offered to Johns Hopkins University for study , though the offer was declined . 
