Now that’s a lifesaver
Getting fresh water to shipwrecked sailors could be as easy as smoking a pipe, thought Alexander Graham Bell.
Shipwrecked sailors often died of thirst. Saving their lives could be as easy as smoking a pipe thought the inventive Alexander Graham Bell, who taught the mechanism of speech at BU from 1874 to 1879. In this undated photo, Bell experiments with a device he developed to capture water from exhaled breath.