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Born in Edinburg, Scotland.
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Bell was regularly being referred to in the London press as "the celebrated Professor of Elocution."
Elocution - The skill of clear and impressive speech.
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Advantage: People could talk to friends in other places and not have to leave home.
Disadvantage: Lines could only connect two people at a time and were often very slow connecting because they had to be connected manually. -
Alexander Graham Bell made the first call with his invention of the telephone.
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Rutherford B. Hayes became the first presifent to use phones in the white house, his first call went to none other than Alexander himself
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Advantage: The president could call the people in his emergency office when needed.
Disadvantage: If the line was busy he would have to wait. -
Advantage: The people calling each other did not have to stand to call any one anymore, which would give them time to rest thier sore and tired legs.
Disadvantage: People still could not call more than one person and the operators often had a tough time keeping up with all of the calls. They needed something to make calling people easy and fast. -
Alexander Graham Bell envisioned that in the near future friends could call each other from a comfortable place in their home without having to stand at the wall where his first phone was often mounted.
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Advantage: This led to more money which led to better production of the wireless phone which soon replaced the first phone almost entirely.
Disadvantage: People still needed a better and more efficient system to call each other with and they still needed a way to call each other more than one at a time. More phones led to more people with this weighty problem. -
There are 5.8 million phones all over the country with the continental phone line connecting the Eastern and Western halfs of the United States.
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Police officers are using telephones to help communicate better when they go out in the patrol cars
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Advantage: Police officers could contact each other on a chase or on detective cases.
Disadvantage: If the line was busy the officers could not contact each other which led to problems especially when back up was needed. -
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Even after the death of Alexander Graham Bell, his telephones have still come further by losing the original turn dial
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Advantage: The phones losing the turn dial made it easier and faster to dial.
Disadvantage: This led to faster calls and more problems with the operators. -
Scientists made hair thin threads of glass that carry information in beams of light and can carry more than 24,000 telephone calls at one time
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Advantage: Opreators were no longer needed and did not have to worry about the phone lines any more.
Disadvantage: This put many people out of a job and a lot of them had rough times finding another job. -
Telephones now have caller ID and people can conference call, which allows more than one person to call each other at one time
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Advantage: People couldd now identify wh was calling and could now call more than one person at a time.
Disadvantage: People who got a new phone would not get answered beause the person they were calling would not answer the phone because they didn't recodnize the number. -
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Advantage: People could now carry their phones around with them where ever they go.
Disadvantage: Some people did not approve of these phones. -
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Advantage: People had an even easier time doing things on their phones.
Disadvantage: Youth often used it too much. -
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Advantage: The text message made it easier to contact someone if you had no time to call them.
Disadvantage: Youth was starting to have less face to face contact with friends and family -
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Advantage: The Iphone made everything easier on your phone as it progressed.
Disadvantage: Youth wasstarting playing too many video games and wasting time texting instead of going out and seeing friends.
