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Three Inspiring Deaf People - washingtonpost.com
· Did you know that the inventor of the phonograph (your grandparents' MP3) was deaf? But Thomas Alva Edison , who invented hundreds of things, never got around to making a hearing aid. He claimed to be working on one, but he also said it helped his concentration not to hear "the babble" of people talking.
· When William Hoy suited up for the Washington Senators in 1888, he became the first deaf player in baseball's Major Leagues. Hoy couldn't hear the umpire calling balls and strikes, and he is often credited with creating the hand signals that umps still use. Hoy also taught his teammates sign language.
· His growing deafness angered composer Ludwig van Beethoven . Even so, some of his most inspired works were written when he could no longer hear. He cut the legs off a piano and composed on the floor to feel the instrument's vibration. At his death in 1827, his last words reportedly were "I shall hear in heaven."
· Did you know that the inventor of the phonograph (your grandparents' MP3) was deaf? But Thomas Alva Edison , who invented hundreds of things, never got around to making a hearing aid. He claimed to be working on one, but he also said it helped his concentration not to hear "the babble" of people talking.
· When William Hoy suited up for the Washington Senators in 1888, he became the first deaf player in baseball's Major Leagues. Hoy couldn't hear the umpire calling balls and strikes, and he is often credited with creating the hand signals that umps still use. Hoy also taught his teammates sign language.
· His growing deafness angered composer Ludwig van Beethoven . Even so, some of his most inspired works were written when he could no longer hear. He cut the legs off a piano and composed on the floor to feel the instrument's vibration. At his death in 1827, his last words reportedly were "I shall hear in heaven."
