History of the telephone

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/history-of-the-telephone

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the inventor?Alexander Graham Bell
2. What is the year of u.s. patent?1876
3. What is a telephone?A telephone is a device that lets people talk to each other from far away by turning sound into electrical signals and back again.
4. Who invented the telephone?Alexander Graham Bell, a Scottish-born inventor, got the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876, just after Elisha Gray.

Transduction: The process of converting one form of energy into another, like sound into electricity.
Acoustics: The scientific study of sound and how it travels.
Societal Integration: How a new invention becomes a normal and essential part of everyday life.