Chris


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How did electricity change the way we communicate? Back in the 19th century the way that people would communicate was by letter, the electric telegraph or conversing with that person. Now we could talk to that person if we were close use the phone if it was farther away or even use the internet to contact a person by message. Such things would not even exist if the world did not know about electricity.

Back in the 19th century messages were sent and delivered by the pony express because it was the fastest way to deliver mail but before there was such thing as the pony express letters and mail was delivered by messenger boys. It would take a pony express rider 24 hours to travel 250 miles on horseback. Before the pony express messages were sent by using the telegraph. It was invented in 1850 and it sent messages long distances by using morse code. About twenty years later the telephone was invented by Alexander Grahmbell and it inter-connected the world The first telephone was invented in 1974 by Alexander Grahmbell. It allowed people to talk to each other at large distances. This invention was made to make it easier for people to talk to people farther away from them. Bell and his assistand Elisha Grey both designed their own version of the telephone they planned to have a device that would transmitt speech electrically. After when the found that their devices worked the two of them raced to the patent office within hours of each other. This lead to a legal battle in which Bell won. The reason that the telephone was invented was because bell wanted to improve the telegraph.
 * 1)How has communication changed?**
 * 2)When was the first telephone invented and how did it work?**

Back in the 19th century the most used form of communication was either casual conversation or by letter.
 * 3)What was the most used form of communication in the 19th century?**

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