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Inventions and Innovations

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  1. Alexander Graham Bell exhibited his telephone in 1876. What did he think about this invention? Did he understand how it worked?

  2. Did he think that the telephone was something that most people would have in their homes someday? Did it seem like a useful means of communication, or was writing just as good?

  3. By 1880, many cities had telephone service, did he have a telephone in his home? Was this common at the time or was it considered a luxury? What did it look like? How was it different from later telephones?

  4. What did he use the telephone for? Did telephones change his life at all? How would his life have been different without them? What did he think were the positive and negative aspects of telephones?

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