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• Preface

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Telecommunications history

• How the telephone works

• Phone FUN facts

• Why the Phone Works When the Lights GO OUT

• FTTP (Fiber to the Prem)

• Future of Telecommunications

• Crossword Puzzle

• Word Search

• Glossary

• Credits

• Speech by Thomas Watson

Alexander G. Bell

• Rrring.......Rrring...... Hello?......Hi, I’d like to order a pizza....

• 911, please send an ambulance to 14 Chestnut Court. There’s been an accident......

• Hi Grandma! It’s snowing here. How is it in Florida?......

• Operator, could you connect me to 867-5309?.....

• Here’s another fax Mary, could you get on the computer and “Google” something for me please?.....

Ahhh, the telephone. Most of us take it for granted. After all, it’s always been around hasn’t it?

Well, maybe for us, but not always for everyone. It had to be thought up, experimented with and eventually invented. That’s where we’re going to start. We are going to give you -- the who, what, when, where, and why that brought us to one of the most important inventions of modern time, the telephone.