American Telephone & Telegraph

I stand outside of the airport, phone to my ear. My foot taps rapidly as the phone continues to ring. If this boy doesn’t answer his phone in the next minute, he's going to be missing a limb. Just as the thoughts of me using a butcher knife for the first time runs through my head, his voice projects from the speaker. "Lex," He breaths out. He sounds like he just ran a marathon. "You're lucky you answered. I was just thinking about separating your head from the rest of body." I begin…

Thomas Edison Thomas Edison struggled in his early life. Edison lost his hearing at a very young age, due to the scarlet fever. He was not in public school only for 3 months because of his hearing loss. He missed out on a lot of things because he got deadly sick. His later life was much better than his childhood, he became an inventor and a businessman. He was one of the greatest businessman of America. Thomas Edison was born on February 11th, 1847 in Milan Ohio. child of Nancy Matthews…

We are taught from a very young age the numbers 911 and to always call during a real emergency. That is not always the case in our society anymore though. The national 911 services have gradually become an abused luxury and not a source for help in an extreme emergency. The three main service’s provided EMS, Fire, and Police have become attacked and abused. The abuse of 911 has become a critical problem that needs to be addressed as soon as possible in order the secure the future of emergency…

1854 his family moved to Port Huron Michigan. Growing up, Edison sold candy and newspapers on trains. He later on became a telegraph operator after saving the train station agent’s daughter from an oncoming train. At the age of 21, Edison moved to Louisville Kentucky in 1866 and became an employee of western union. Starting in 1872, Thomas Edison worked on the quadruplex telegraph system.…

Today, you can flip a switch to light a room, watch a video by pressing a few bottoms, and listen to music with a few clicks. Life wasn't always like this. Before Steve Jobs came along with the iPhone, iPad, iPod, Macintosh, or Pixar, there were other inventors who helped slowly build our world today. One of them was Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison didn't live the most perfect life, he was almost deaf, had little actual education and was poor in his childhood, but that didn't stop him from…

“Ok Google,” Brooke said, “How has technology changed over the years?” Over the past years, technology has evolved in multiple ways. A few altered electronic devices include phones, television, and computers. One of the many devices that have advanced are phones. Phones have changed a lot over the years. Nowadays, you can text on-screen, so you don’t have to flip open a keyboard. Today phones are not the same size as they were in the past. Phones aren’t as bulky and immobile now, as they…

Conceived on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, Thomas Edison ascended from humble beginnings to fill in as an innovator of significant innovation. Setting up a lab in Menlo Park, a portion of the items he created incorporated the transmit, phonograph, the primary monetarily handy brilliant electric light, soluble capacity batteries and Kinetograph (a camera for films). He kicked the bucket on October 18, 1931, in West Orange, New Jersey. At age 12, Edison embarked to give a lot of that…

The light bulb that is common in today’s society was invented by none other than Thomas Edison in 1879, however, the first attempts in accomplishing so were made by Sir Humphry Davy in 1802. In 1878, Edison conducted countless hours of research into developing an incandescent lamp and he filed his first patent for “Improvement in Electrical Lights” on October 14, 1878. On November 4, 1879, he filed a patent once again utilizing a “Carbon filament or strip coiled and connected… to platina contact…

Alexander Graham Bell: The Man behind the Telephone We live in the 21st Century, the age of scientific and technological advancements. One aspect of life that humans take for granted is communication. When the word, “Phone” is said, the phone companies like “Apple”, or “Samsung” automatically come to mind. Companies have attempted to innovate the phone for a great length of years, and that is why modern-day telephones and cellular devices are cosmetically sleek, futuristic, and more sufficient…

Users can change their voice into different types completely. Usually the voice changer is used for fun, but unfortunately it steps in criminal. Telephone scams, the very common crime that using a telephone, is using the disadvantage of telephone as a weapon, which people can’t really identify the person at the other side of the phone. Since the newer telephone is made into a high quality, voice changer is used for falsifying the personal identity. Even though technology is improved, some people…