The Telephone

Scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell impacted the world through his invention of the device that 19 out of 20 Americans own; the telephone. What started out as an idea, became something that changed communication forever. The telephone took communication from a long, slow process, and made it almost effortless. However it didn’t just happen immediately. The original telephone in 1876 is vastly different from the one most of Americans have today. As each model was advanced, more features were added and problems were fixed that helped make it easier. Communication was not the only benefit of the phone; the telephone also saved time and money since the people did not have to travel great distances like in the past. Businesses now could communicate to clients and other businesses far away in a short amount of time, increasing profits for that business.

    Although the name Alexander Graham Bell may not be known to many people, the word telephone is. Nor do some people realize how different life would be without the telephone. Very few negatives occur with the telephone which make it even more of a positive impact on society. The telephone changed the world for the better, in a way that will continue to have an impact as more adaptations and inventions occur. - Sam D.

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Annotated Works Cited

• "Alexander Graham Bell." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 Feb. 2018. school.eb.com/levels/high/article/Alexander-Graham-Bell/15220. This was another Britannica School source that was more focused on Alexander Graham Bell which was beneficial to the paragraph on Bell. Much information was gathered from this source and it was probably the second best source. This was also reliable because it was Britannica School.
• Bell, Alexander Graham. “Notebook by Alexander Graham Bell, from 1875 to 1876.” The Library of Congress, 1875, www.loc.gov/item/magbell.25300201/. This was my one primary source. It was several pictures of Alexander Graham Bell’s notebook about the telephone. Since it was a primary source, it help support my whole entire essay because it was Alexander Graham Bell’s personal notebook. This was from the Library of Congress which means it was a reliable source.
• Borth, David E. “Telephone.” Britannica School, school.eb.com/levels/high/article/telephone/110260. I definitely got the most information from this Britannica website. It had plenty of information on the original first telephone, as well as how it works, and the changes in it. It was separated into sections to make it easy to find a specific piece of information. It was very reliable as well since it was Britannica School.
• Harrison, Christopher. “Negative Effects of the Telephone.” Techwalla, www.techwalla.com/articles/negative-effects-of-the-telephone. In this essay, I thought that it would be beneficial to add the negatives of the telephone to make it more valid. This source contained all the information I needed to add the negatives of the telephone. It was hard to prove this source was reliable, but it did have statistics and facts to support the information.
• History.com Staff. “Alexander Graham Bell.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009, www.history.com/topics/inventions/alexander-graham-bell. This also supported the paragraph on Alexander Graham Bell because this website was about him. It also included the telephone and other inventions he invented. It explained Bell’s early life and then everything from the telephone and beyond which was very interesting. Overall it was a good and reliable source that I used a lot.
• “How the Telephone Works.” Antique Telephone History Website, www.antiquetelephonehistory.com/telworks.php.  Most of the information on how the telephone works came from this source and it was very helpful. It was hard to verify if it was 100% reliable, but it did have good information.
• Kang, Daljinder. “The Impact of The Telephone on Society.” The Impact of The Telephone on Communication, courses.educ.ubc.ca/etec540/Sept04/kangd/Researchproject/inventionoftelephone.htm.  This was a paper written about the impact of the telephone which is very close to this essay. I got many different supporting facts that I used in my essay. One of my quotes even came from this source. I knew it was reliable because there was a bibliography with an assortment of sources on the website.
• “Mobile Fact Sheet.” Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech, 12 Jan. 2017, www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/mobile/. This source was the least useful out of all of them, but it was still very important. It was important because a few facts were gathered from it that did help support the thesis, but there were not many of those facts. It seemed very reliable because it was an organization that used many different facts and statistics in it, as well as interactive charts and graph. Since it was mainly fact based, it was not biased, or opinionated at all. It mostly explained how many people have a phone and how that number increased over the years which was very interesting and helpful to see.

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