When Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibited their telephone at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, Henry saw to it that the invention received the Certificate of Merit. Even at the ...

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In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell did so and patented the first telephone ... on Victorian society and the opening of the World’s first power station at Holborn Viaduct. The invention of the ...

By 1881 Edison’s phrase entered the dictionary, and telephone exchange operators across the country soon became known as “hello-girls.” Like this one, some Thomas Edison inventions are so ...

There’s something very revealing about the photos on people’s phone lock screens. Being nosy on crowded ... one – always in ...

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The Invention of Love centers on the life of A ... Stoppard’s dream world includes Victorian London, where Parliament made homosexuality a crime, and the French seashore, where Oscar Wilde ...

The invention of the telephone and how it changed society ... of the effects of Michael Faraday’s electrical generator on Victorian society and the opening of the World’s first power station ...

As Steve Roud explains in “The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland,” the combination of Friday and the number 13 is a Victorian invention. In 1907, the publication of ...

The Invention of Love centers on the life of A ... Stoppard’s dream world includes Victorian London, where Parliament made homosexuality a crime, and the French seashore, where Oscar Wilde ...