How Did The Telephone Influence Society

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The telephone Influenced society in a way most would know and acknowlege. The telephone is and instrument which converts sound, specifically the human voice, to electrical impulses of various frequencies and then back to a tone that sounds like the original voice. The first telephone was inveted by Alexander Graham Bel. Alexander brought together the world’s first telephone, using parts frome a shop of electrical equipment and the skill of his assistant Thomas Watson. In 1876, at the age of 29 Alexander created the telephone and in one year he formed the Bell Telephone Company. I think the advantages of this invention are great especially at the time the telephone came out. People had to rely on mail which often took weeks, months or even a

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