The Silver Lining in Communications
Outline
Thesis: The steps and process to how the invention of the telephone was made and came about.
1. The usage of the Telegraph.
a) The telegraph was the form of communication in the 1800s.
b) There was a growing demand for more and more messages be sent at once by the device.
c) Alexander created the Harmonic Telegraph which led to the invention of the telephone.
2. The process of making The Telephone
A. Bell shaped a piece of steel like a clarinet reed and tune it to transmit sound.
B. Bell discovered the need for high resistance coils, instead of low resistance coils, to be next to the transmitter 's electromagnet
3. The arrival of Telephone
A. It’s social impact
B. The success of The telephone
The Invention of the Telephone:
The Silver Lining of Communications
The invention of the telephone has made our lives much easier. Before the telephone was invented people use to communicate by fire or a light from a torch. Native Americans actually developed a more complex system of signaling with fire by controlling the release of the smoke, but such smoke signals also had their limitations. Another way to send a message between places that weren 't too far apart was to use sounds better than the human voice. African tribes used drums to communicate. The way they used to get messages across from place to place was by foot, but once they learned how to use horses the messengers could get the message much faster. In the nineteenth-century the message delivery system was called Pony Express. It took about ten days for the message to get to the destination. Within no time the telegraph was introduced in the 1800 's. The first message was send on May 24, to the Supreme Court.
The inventor of the telephone was Alexander Graham Bell. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847. His father and grandfather were both elocutionists
It was the year 1872, people were still using the
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