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Author Spilsbury, Louise, author.

Title Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone / Louise Spilsbury.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : PowerKids Press, 2016.

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  J621.385 SPILSBURY    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  J621.385 SPILSBURY    Check Shelf
Description 32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Series Inventions that changed the world
Inventions that changed the world.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.
Contents The power of the telephone -- Early years -- Teaching speech -- Experiments in sound -- Eureka -- How it worked -- Telephones take off -- Fame and fortune -- Family and retirement -- More inventions -- Later years -- Changing the world -- Timeline -- Glossary -- For more information -- Index.
Summary When Alexander Graham Bell invented the first practical, working telephone he assured himself a place in the history books forever. The telephone was an invention that truly changed the world. It quickly became the fastest and most efficient way for people to communicate over any distance.
Subject Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922 -- Juvenile literature.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
Telephone -- United States -- History -- Origin and antecedents -- Juvenile literature.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
ISBN 9781508146254 (library binding)
150814625X (library binding)
1508146233
9781508146230
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