I A . Alexander Graham Bell and his invention of the telephone. And how he improved other inventions and helped other with their inventions as well. II A . Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 and died on August 2, 1922 . He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His parents were Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Syhmonds. Alexander Graham Bell was educated in Scotland and at age 11 entered the Royal High School at Edinburgh. He didn't enjoy the curriculum and left at the age of 15 and didn't graduate. In June of 1868 Alexander passed the entrance exams for the University College in London and went there in the fall. Alexander established …show more content…
The telephone uses electricity and wires with handsets for people to talk into and listen with. B A group of investors led by Gardiner Hubbard wanted to establish a federally chartered telegraph company to compete with Western Union by contracting with the post office to send low cost telegrams. Hubbard saw great promise in the harmonic telegraph and backed Alexander Graham Bell's experiments. Alexander Graham Bell was interested in transmitting the human voice. Alexander Graham Bell and Hubbard worked out an agreement that Bell would devote most of his time to the harmonic telegraph but he would continue developing his telephone concept. IV. A The telephone was invented to help people communicate better as well as faster. It was important because people can communicate with police, fire , or ambulance in case of emergency , fire , or burglary . Because of these things the telephone has saved many lives . The telephone also has kept many people in touch who don't live close together …show more content…
It originated version had two handsets to listen to and speak to other people . Then it was changed to a party line with an operator who connected and listened to calls for people . Then it was changed to a phone in each home connected to each other by several operators who connected longer distance calls to each other. Then the next improvement of the telephone had a rotary dial on it , and was in each home , then people could dial the number of the person they wished to talk to and was connected without operator assistance like earlier versions had to have . Then the next improvement was when the telephone had push buttons instead of a rotary dial , but it still worked in the same way. The next improvement of the telephone was the cellular telephone . It took the telephone and made it smaller and portable so anyone , anywhere could make a phone call to anyone they wanted to call. C The other inventions that the led to was a telegraph that had multiple lines so that