History of Telephone

The word telephone comes from the Greek language, and it means......

• box and sounds

• tele and phone

• far and sound

Chose all of the ways the telephone hurts us.

• Brother can hit you in the head with it.

• Radiation can affect your health.

• Your mom calls you all the time.

• Bad people can steal your information.

What's the main topic of telephone calls?

• dating

• shopping

• nonsense

• business

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Who did Alexander Bell work with?

• Thomas Graham
• Thomas A. Watson
• Thomas G. Limmber
• Timothy Rarsh

Back in the early days, a phone call had to go through...

• A machine that connected you.
• Airwaves that carried the signal.
• a human operator at a central office.
• know one knows, it was too long ago.

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Operators used a _____________ to make a connection between callers.

• switchboard
• party line
• airwaves 
• magic

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What replaced the need for operators?

• Better magic
• automatic dial switching
• wireless communication

Before World War II, most people didn't have their own phone number, or "line". Instead, anywhere from two to twenty people shared a...

• party line.
• conga line.
• conga line.
• dance line. 

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Technology refers to the _____that people have invented to make life easier.

• machines and tools
• methods and machines
• processes and methods
• tools and processes

An early invention that had a huge impact on business was the ______.

• computer
• microchip
• radio
• telephone