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Alexander Graham Bell and the Creation that Changed Communication
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Thesis: Alexander Graham Bell greatly impacted communication in war, business, and the further engineering of communication by the invention of the telephone.
Topics of Discussion
1. The era before the telephone
2. Life of Alexander Graham Bell
3. The Journey to the creation of the telephone
4. what all the telephone impacted
The Era Before the Telephone
life before fast communication through the telephone is almost unimaginable. Communication today has gone a long way since the late 1800s. Communication back then used only face to face conversation and if that was not possible then people would send a letter. Most communication people would get would be with your family or co workers. In late may 1838 the telegraph was invented, this form of communication used electrical impulses to send a sound and then someone on the other end of the telegraph would have to make out the sounds to words using Morse code. This would be the first change to communication in a long time, although this was not available to all citizens.
The Life of Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh Scotland and that is where he grew up. When he was 25 he started a school to teach deaf people to speak, he did this all without a college degree. Bell would continue at this school for two years until he found another place he would work at.
The Journey to the Creation of the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell had just joined an inventor shop at the end of 1874. Earlier that year his future Co-Worker had also joined that year but at a lower level. Soon enough Bell and Watson would work together and begin experimenting on the telephone. This creation would take a lot of experimentation with a lot of failure and little success. The majority of the time was spent making extremely slow progress, but then Watson had accidentally broke a key component the the device and would cause their progress go in their favor. Soon enough they would have their first successful sentences which would start the beginning of a new era of communication and more.
What all the Telephone Impacted
The telephone was a huge deal now, winning awards, being the big talk, but it wasn't available to most of the public yet. It was only available to businesses and rich people. But it would eventually make its way to the people. The telephone had a bigger role to play than just with peoples daily talk. It impacted war and businesses more than anything. With telephones, communicating from a long distance was so easy and gave America a huge advantage over other countries. It also increased the efficiency of many businesses a lot with communication now being almost instant from really long distances.
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