Telephone

= Emily & Alyssa =

__The Telephone__
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), a Scottish-born inventor and educator, is best known for his invention of the telephone. Bell was 27 years old when he worked out the principle of transmitting speech electrically, and was 29 when his basic telephone patent was granted in 1876.The telephone was first invented in 1874 by Alexander Graham Bell. He made the telephone because he thought communication would be faster and easier. It would take a matter of seconds just to talk to someone some where in the world but if you send a letter it would take a matter of days or weeks depending on where that person lived. The telegraph had been invented before Bell's time. Signals, music, and even voicelike sounds had been transmitted electrically by wire. But human speech had never been sent by wire. Many inventors were working to accomplish this, and Bell was the first to succeed.Bell's great invention stemmed from his keen interest in the human voice, his basic understanding of acoustics, his goal of developing an improved telegraph system, and his burning desire for fame and fortune. Bell, a teacher of the deaf, once told his family he would rather be remembered as such a teacher than as the inventor of the telephone. But the telephone was of such great importance to the world that Alexander Graham Bell's name will always be associated with it.Alexander Graham Bell became a citizen of the United States in 1882. He spent most of his later life at his estate on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. He worked in his laboratory or sat at his piano playing old Scottish tunes. Bell died Aug. 2, 1922, at his Nova Scotia home.

Emily: Hey aren't you the person who invented the Telephone? Alyssa: Yes I am Alexander Graham Bell, I invented the telephone in 1874. Emily: What was your intention of inventing the Telephone? Alyssa: I figured this machine would help make communication faster and easier. Emily: So instead of writing a letter and traveling to the person who your sending it to you invented the Telephone? Alyssa: Yes. I found it much better to use this idea. Alyssa: Has the telephone change over the years a lot? Emily: Why yes it did actually. Emily: The phones now are much smaller and easier to travel with. Alyssa: Back when I invented them they were big and hard to manouver. Emily: Yeah, now a days phones have screens and instead of just talking you can text. Emily: So when did you decide to show the telephone to the world? Alyssa: I decided to show my ideas to the Centennial Exposition, in 1876. I thought my ideas were useful and they may make a change someday. I see all my work did pay off. Emily: So all your work did pay off and now we can communicate and do many things like texting, calling people anywhere in the world, and many more! Alyssa: WOW! I am very happy to hear how far my ideas have gotten. I hope other scientist, like me, continue to make great creations. :) <[]>. Telephones had no dials in the first part of the 1900s. Instead of dialing, callers told a telephone operator the number they wanted to call.

• Arthur R. Brodsky, M.S.J., Communications Director, Public Knowledge, Washington, D.C.
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