Can You Hear Me Now?

Many things were invented during the industrial revolution, and several of those things are still in major use today. One example of this is the telephone. From the time period of around 1860-1876, the telephone was a big topic, and one that seemed impossible to create. However, in 1870, a man named Alexander Graham Bell fully turned his attention to developing a device where a needle vibrated in water to transmit sound. The sound was transmitted because the electrical current would change. Eventually, on March 7, 1876, Alexander got a patent on the telephone. There were also other inventors such as Elisha Gray, and Antonio Meucci, who also developed their own technology that transmitted sound, but they have never gotten credited like Alexander Graham Bell.

With all of this being said, the telephone is still in great use today. Over the past 140 years, the phone has changed immensely, and now it's one of the most popular electronic devices in the world. The phone has definitely changed my life, and it's changed it a lot. From playing games, to texting, to going on social media, and of course making phone calls, I use my phone almost every single day. Now, even though phones are a lot more than just calling in the modern day, that was what was invented in the industrial revolution, so let's focus on that. Personally, if I need help, I'm in danger, or just need to communicate with anybody, my phone is the number one thing I would go to to connect with somebody. I make calls at least once a day or two days, depending on the events that happen. An astonishing fact about phone calls, is that in the present, about 3 billion phone calls are made each day, and that's just in the U.S.! Overall, the telephone is still in major use in the present, and it has revolutionized the way I communicate with people from any distance, and in any place in the world.




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The Invention of the Telephone

What is something we use everyday? What is the one thing we cannot live without? If your answers were your phone, you're not alone. Everyday we make calls, text our friends, check our social media, and all this is done from your phone. Many people probably don’t even know how this “Phone craze” all started. Some say it was when the IPhone was invented. Some say it was when the cell phone was invented, but if you go way back to the 1870s, you'll find that this phone craze was started by a genius inventor named Alexander Graham Bell.

Bell wasn’t the only one to come up with the brilliant idea of being able to call someone who was no where near you. In fact a man named Elisha Gray also had this brilliant idea. Both men independently created the very first phone, but Bell got his patented first.

The first telephone was very different than the amazing technology we have today. Alexander Bell first referred to it as the “Electrical speech machine”. The only thing it could do was make calls. No texting, no apps, no screen! This phone was a stationary phone, so it could not go wherever you go. You most likely have at least one of these in your house, but this one was very different.

Overall, the telephone was a fantastic invention that certainly influenced current technology and our day to day lives!
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