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Centervention: Body Language Activities Using Telephone Game
In this activity, students will play the game of "Telephone" in two different ways. Students will first play "Telephone" with the traditional version of the the game and then only communicate via their body language.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Joseph Henry Lays Groundwork for the Telephone
This is the man who most encouraged Bell to invent the telephone. Bell said, "But for Henry, I never would have gone ahead with the telephone." This is a fascinating account both of Bell's invention and of Henry's life. Half a biography,...
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History.com: Was There Really a "Red Telephone" Hotline During the Cold War?
During the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union established a direct communications link to allow their leaders to contact one another in the event of a nuclear crisis or other emergency. This Washington-Moscow...
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Pbs: American Experience: More About Bell
Part of the larger site about Alexander Graham Bell from the series, American Experience, this biography focuses mainly on his education and experimentation which resulted in his development of the telephone. Included is information...
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Fascinating Facts About Alexander Graham Bell
Fascinating facts about Alexander Graham Bell, the Canadian inventor of the telephone. Incorporated into the site include and 'at a glance' summary of his life, a 'milestones' timeline and a brief summary of his life story. In addition,...
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Antonio Meucci
A short biography about Antonio Meucci, best known for developing a voice communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.
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Telephone Songs
This is an amusing site that deals with telephones. Take a break from learning all these skills and learn how to play a couple songs!
Yale University
Yale: Avalon Project: Telephone Communication From Robert Coulondre
Communications between the French ambassador to Germany and the French minister of Foreign Affairs concerning the German invasion of Poland.
Library of Congress
Loc: American Treasures: "Mr. Watson Come Here!"
The American Library of Congress has Alexander Graham Bell's lab notebook in which he tells the story of the first successful telephone exchange.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Line Installers and Repairers
This resource provides information about line istallers and repairers. Topics covered include working conditions, training, job outlook, earnings, and related careers.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Telecommunications Equipment Installers
This resource provides information about telecommunications equipment installers. Topics covered include working conditions, training, job outlook, earnings, and related careers.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors
This site provides information on American inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Singer, Wilbur Wright, Thomas Alva Edison, Elias Howe, and Alexander Graham Bell. It offers pictures from and...
Princeton Review
The Princeton Review: Service Sales Representative
An overview of the career of a service sales representative, including requirements on becoming a service representative, related careers, the projected quality of life, and future job outlook.
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Women in Military Service for America Memorial: World War I: Women and the War
A brief look at the many roles women played at home and overseas during World War I. Besides being nurses, women worked as telephone operators, and in transportation. Read how their service enhanced the women's movement.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Pbs: Moyers on Addiction: Help and Resources
This link from PBS will connect you to a page listing organizations that service individuals with an addiction. Their telephone numbers and websites are provided. At the top of this page questions are answered regarding the diagnosis of...
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History.com: How United Flight 93 Passengers Fought Back on 9/11
The cockpit voice recorder captured the sound of passengers attempting to break through the door. Like the three other planes hijacked on September 11, Flight 93 was overtaken by al-Qaeda intent on crashing it into the White House or the...
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: The Cord
The one-stanza poem compares the reach of a phone cord to the long reach of her mother.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Technology of the 1800s
[Free Registration/Login Required] Article considers the inventions and innovations in communication, transportation, and manufacturing that drove America forward in the nineteenth century. Includes a link to an interactive history of...
Harp Week
Harp Week: The Presidential Elections: Events
Read about the domestic policies and events that occured in Grover Cleveland's first term of office. Many of these were events on which he would run as he sought his second term.
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Telecommunications History Group: h.b. Santee and Warren G. Harding
Harding's train trip across the West and on to Alaska is told through the papers, photos, and writings of H.B. Santee, an engineer who accompanied him.
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History.com: 6 Key Inventions by Thomas Edison
Edison's genius was improving on others' technologies and making them more practical for the general public. Thomas Edison applied for his first patent in 1868, when he was just 21 years old. The famous inventor's first brainchild was...
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