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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the 1870s, Alexander Graham Bell was trying to improve the telegraph when he and his assistant discovered that speech itself could be transmitted over telegraph wires. Explore the subsequent engineering developments that brought the telephone to almost all households, including Bell's invention of twisted-pair cabling to reduce crosstalk, still in use today.
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Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Since the invention of the telephone, there has been controversy over who really invented it: Was it really Alexander Graham Bell? Or was is Elisha Gray-or someone else? But, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the first patent issued to a design for a telephone, making Alexander Graham Bell the man credited with changing communication forever! Readers learn about the early life that led Bell to invent the telephone as well as his other accomplishments,...
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Language
English
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"Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants Ellen to speak up in support of his claim to the patent...
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Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Cell phones are an important part of life for many kids and teens. They use cell phones to keep in touch with friends, to look up facts, and for emergencies. But should cell phones be allowed in school? This book introduces readers to major arguments for and against cell phones in the classroom. Readers will be able to take in the arguments and supporting facts to make an informed opinion of their own. Through accessible text, fact boxes, and a graphic...
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Series
Legal sidebar volume LSB11029
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A cryptic message forces eighteen-year-old American Edda to investigate what secrets followed her across the ocean, even as she tries to make sense of her time as a telephone operator on the French front lines of World War I.
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel. In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance....
Author
Series
Insight volume IN11028
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2019-
Language
English
Author
Series
Legal sidebar volume LSB10873
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2022-
Language
English
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the old-style analog telephone system, voltage increased and decreased across the wires, corresponding to the human voice signal. But in a digital system, that all changes. Learn how the human voice is changed into binary values, sent over the system, and then converted back into volts with the voltage applied to the speaker in the phone handset. The human ear takes it from there.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the original telephone system, the connection stayed in place until that one conversation was complete. But when email was developed in the 1970s and ‘80s, people weren't satisfied sending just one type of signal. Explore the development of the ethernet and internet and learn about the protocols that now allow us to send such a wide variety of information types.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
From the internationally best-selling author, a chilling fresh spin on the classic horror novel • When the voices call, don't answer.
“In The Night House, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there.”—Josh Malerman, New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black Yarn
In the wake of his parents’ tragic deaths...
“In The Night House, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there.”—Josh Malerman, New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black Yarn
In the wake of his parents’ tragic deaths...