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media type="file" key="NEW INVENTIONS VIDEO.wmv"  The __ Telephone!

__ Inventor: Alexander Graham Bell Date of Invention: March 10, 1896 Birth of Inventor: March 3, 1847 -- Edinburgh, Scotland  Death of Inventor: August 2, 1922 -- Nova Scotia, Canada

Although Alexander Graham Bell invented the very first working telephone, he didn't really have the idea first. In 1831, Micheal Faraday discovered and proved that vibrations of metal could be converted into electric impules, which could convert to sound. This was the whole idea of the phone, but it wasn't set to use until 1861. At that time in Germany, Johann Philip Reis made a simple machine that converted sound to electricity, and back to sound. It was never completed because it wasn't able to transmit most important frequncies and the idea was dropped. The idea was born again into a simple built telephone, one made by Elisha Gray, and another by Alexander Bell, in the United States. Although both men filed patents for their finished phones, Alexander filed his two hours before Elisha in New York. Both men played important roles in the making of the telephone. Elisha built the first electromagnet receiver in 1874, but he didn't have the right idea of a working transmitter until Alexander built it. So, Elisha Gray soon gave up and Alexander Graham Bell continued working on the phone until one great day in 1876. It was the sixth of March when Bell made the first successful phone call, he was ordering one of his assistants into his room. This was the founding of Alexander's and the world's first telephone company, the Bell Telephone company. This soon became AT&T, which is now the #1 and biggest phone company in the world. How it's helpful When the telephone became national, it helped citizens in many ways. If there was an emergency of any type, you would be able to call the police, amubulance, or fire station. Before, you would have to run to get help and it would take up time. Basically, the telephone has helped the world because it saves time to get information to someone quickly, or simply to just have a nice conversation with a friend. Also we are able to communicate with people all over the world. Just in case we want to catch up with foreign family members, or friends who have moved away. Without phones, our lives would be as difficult as in the past because we would have to travel to get news to someone. Or we would have to travel to get help for an emergency. Another way that phones are important is that nowadays, cell phones can be tracked by police and rescuers to find missing people, or to solve a crime. You can also check the connections to people, calls, and recorded conversations to solve a crime.

Did You Know??? 1. Did you know that the very first telephone system was established in Hartford, Connecticut in 1877? - The first exchange between cities was in 1883 and was between New York and Boston. - The first exchange out of the United States was in London in 1879. This involved workers at a switchboard who connected calls to parties manually. -The first automatic phone exchange was made by Almon Strowger in Kansas in 1892, but the manual switchboards were still in use through the twentieth century. <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #e869b8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #e869b8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Did you know that the Picturephone system was established in 1956? It sent pictures every two seconds. -People didn't like this new idea. The complaints were that the phone was too bulky and was too hard to operate, and the picture was too small. - The Bell Telephone company didn't give up on the idea and soon the Picturephone was made even more popular in the 1980s. Soon after that, it was way more complex, with faster transmitting and better quality.

<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #e869b8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Did you know that the cell phone began being used nationwide in 1983? - The phone idea was tested using cars and cells. - When the caller's car passed another car, their cell would be transferred to other cells. Then the phone call would be transferred to the receiver's phone.

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