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 Final Presentation click on open and then use the arrows to move the "slides":http://prezi.com/6936/   Under Construction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What was their name? Samuel Finley Breese Morse   <span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);">

<span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);">When and where were they born? <span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);">February 27, 1791 in <span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);">Charlestown, Massachusetts. <span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);">

What did they invent? He invented the telegraph.

Why is our world better than before it was invented? While, today we don't use the telegraph because it is a very out dated form of communication, back in the 19th century it was vital for people to keep in contact with others. People used Morse code on boats to send S.O.S. and to keep in contact with the mainland.

<span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);">Why should they be named the most important inventor in the 19th century? This was an invention that helped save many peoples lives, because there wasn't any other way to communicate with people on other boats nearby and/or the mainland, as they would call it. <span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);">

How did the telegraph work? The telegraph works by using electric currents to transmit coded messages to other people with telegraphs. The telegraph can't transmit voice messages where the telephone can, but at the time there wasn't the telephone because the telephone wasn't invented until 1876 and this form of the telegraphwas invented in 1837.

What do people not know about the telegraph? What some people don't know about the telegraph is that many other people attempted to make the telegraph before Samuel Morris. Some of those people were Claude Chappe and Samuel Soemmering.

<span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);">When did the telegraph become popular? While the telegraph was invented in 1837, it didn't become popular until 1851, when people started to dispatch trucks using the telegraph. <span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);">

How did some of the first telegraphs work? Some of the first telegraphs had twenty-six buttons, which stood for each letter in the alphabet. <span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);">What were some of the uses of the telegraph? Some of the uses of the telegraph were to dispatch trucks, for boats to send signals to the mainland, and the post office started to use in 1881. <span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);"> What are the common day uses of the telegraph? The telegraph is hardly used today because it is a very outdated form of communication.

<span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);">What was their name? Alexander Gram Bell <span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);"> When and where were they born? <span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);">Edinburgh, Scotland, 3 March 1847. <span style="background-color: rgb(0,241,255);"> What did they invent? He invented the telephone. Why is our world a better place than before it was invented? Without the telephone our world would be different because we wouldn't have the quick knowledge of what is going on in other countries until months after it happened. We would also have really slow response in a natural disaster, businesses would also suffer from the lack of communication. Why should this be named the greatest invention of the 19th century? This should be named the most important invention of the 19th century because the telephone, unlike the telegraph the telephone is still used today. How does the telephone work? The telephone works because under the mouth piece there is a wire that carries an electric current. The vibrations from the speaking making it so that there is a pitch change and so that the voice sounds can be transferred. What do people not know about the telephone? What people don't know about the telephone is that the first telephone was a line from the top floor of the building to the second floor, but the voices weren't very clear, so Alexander had spent almost a year trying to make the sounds clearer, and the first clearly understood conversation wasn't until 1875. When did the telephone become popular? The telephone became popular around 1886, when the U.S. had about 140,000 subscribers to telephone companies. What are the common day uses of the telephone? The common day use of the telephone is to call and talk with friends, and now we have texting, in rural areas in other countries they still only use telephones for emergecies.

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