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sign language	Bell's goal was to instruct the deaf to speak and not use what?
tied behind their backs	What would happen so some children's hands in schools?
negative	In what light to many pro-deaf people see Bell?
signing	What was the only language many deaf people had?
Boston University School of Oratory.	With what school did Bell get his next teaching job?
Vocal Physiology and Elocution	What was Bell's discipline?
experiments	What did Bell do late at night?
headaches	What health condition did Bell start to have?
1873	In what year did Bell start to focus on research into sound?
Mabel Hubbard	Bell's two remaining students were "Georgie" Sanders and who?
Thomas Sanders	What was Georgie's father's name?
scarlet fever	What disease made Mabel deaf?
15	How old was Mabel when she became deaf?
smoked glass	On what material did the phonautograph operate?
metal	What kind of reed did Bell want to play with?
sound	What did Bell believe the reeds would turn the signal into?
pen	What instrument is a phonautograph similar to?
1874	In what year was Bell really working on his telegraph?
Western Union	What business was William Orton in charge of?
nervous system	In 1874 the telegraph was known as the what of commerce?
cost	What was the primary motivation for not building new telegraph lines?
Elisha Gray	Thomas Edison and what other scientist were already asked to work on a better telegraph?
Joseph Henry	Who did Bell go to see in 1875?
Joseph Henry	Who ran the Smithsonian in 1875?
Get it!	What was Henry's reply to Bell's statement that he lacked information to complete his telegraph?
Thomas A. Watson	Who did Bell meet in 1874?
electrical machine	What kind of business did Watson work at?
Thomas Watson	Who did Bell take on to work with him?
June 2	What month and day did Watson and Bell have a breakthrough?
1	How many reeds did Bell conclude he needed?
gallows	What name was given to the telephone that sort of worked?
Sanders and Hubbard	Who gave money to Bell and Watson?
U.S. profits	What did Bell promise to split with his financers?
Britain	In what country other than the U.S. did Bell try to patent his telegraph?
Britain	Which country did Bell first try to get a patent?
George Brown	Who did Bell ask to get a patent in Britain?
acoustic	What kind of telegraph did Bell create?
water	What material did Elisha Gray use to convey sound?
February 14, 1876	On what date did Gray and Bell both put in for a patent?
February 26	On what day did Bell get to Washington?
U.S. Patent Office	What office in Washington did Bell and Gray visit?
telephone	What sort of machine did Bell and Gray both try to patent at the same time?
174,465	What number is Bell's patent?
March 7, 1876	On what date did Bell get his patent?
apparatus	Bell's patent was for the method and what for transmitting vocal and other sounds telegraphically?
March 7, 1876	On what day did Bell go back to Boston?
Gray	Bell sketched a design that looked like the work of who?
liquid	What kind of transmitter did Bell put in his telephone?
Mr. Watson	How did Bell refer to his partner in his well known line?
electrical resistance	What did the vibrations cause to change?
proof of concept	Bell implemented Gray's design as a what?
March	Bell stopped using the liquid-based method after what month?
commercial use	Bell used his own design in all public demonstrations and what?
variable resistance	What part of the telephone was investigated by the patent officer?
February 25, 1875	When did Bell put in his prior patent?
mercury	What liquid did Bell use in his first application?
Zenas Fisk Wilber	Who declared himself an alcoholic?
Civil War	In what war did Wilber and Bailey fight together?
$100	How much did Wilber say Bell gave him in order to look at Gray's paperwork?
technical details	What did Bell only admit to knowing in a letter?
Mount Pleasant	From what city did Bell send his first message?
fences	Bell sent messages over wires hooked onto telegraph lines and what?
reading and singing	What did the group at the Bells house hear other people doing?
$100,000	How much did Bell et al. try to sell his patent for?
Western Union	Who did Bell et al. try to sell his patent to?
a toy	What did the President think the telephone was, such that he refused to buy the patent?
$25 million	How much the the President of Western Union want to pay for the patent later on?
Philadelphia	In what city was the 1876 Centennial Exposition?
Emperor Pedro II	What important person saw the telephone at the Centennial Exposition?
Brazil	Pedro II was the Emperor of what Country?
Victoria	Which Queen did Bell present his invention to?
1877	In what year was the Bell Telephone Company founded?
150,000	How many people in the United States had a telephone by 1886?
1879	In what year did Bell get some of Edison's patents?
carbon microphone	What addition let people stop yelling into the telephone?
Western Union	What company did Bell acquire the carbon microphone from?
January 1915	In what month and year did Bell telephone across the country?
AT&T	What company office did Bell make the original cross country phone call from?
New York	What city did Bell make the first cross country call from?
San Francisco	What city did Bell make the first cross country call to?
Thomas Watson	Who was on the other end of the first cross country phone call?
18	During how many years did the Bell Company battle lawsuits?
587	How many times were Bell's patents contested?
5	How many of the court cases wound up at the Supreme Court?
Amos Dolbear	Elisha Gray and what other man were behind many of the court cases?
misrepresentation	In 1887 the US Government wanted to undo Bell's patent due to fraud and what?
Supreme Court	The US Government lost the bid to overturn Bell's patent in what court?
9	How many years did Bell and the US Government fight in court?
precedent	What excuse did the judges have for the trial despite the fact that the patents had expired?
November 30, 1897	On what date did the US Government stop legal action?
Antonio Meucci	Who claimed to have invented the in 1834?
3	How many court trials did Meucci participate in?
American District Telegraph (ADT)	At what company were Meucci's prototypes supposedly lost?
1901	In what year did Western Union absorb ADT?
death	What event caused Meucci's trials to be dropped?
royalties	Because of their patent, what didn't Siemens & Halske have to give Bell?
Brussels	What was the home city for the International Bell Telephone Company?
1880	In what year was the International Bell Telephone Company founded?
Mabel Hubbard	Who did Bell marry in 1877?
4	How many children did Bell and Mabel have?

sign language

Bell's goal was to instruct the deaf to speak and not use what?

tied behind their backs

What would happen so some children's hands in schools?

negative

In what light to many pro-deaf people see Bell?

signing

What was the only language many deaf people had?

Boston University School of Oratory.

With what school did Bell get his next teaching job?

Vocal Physiology and Elocution

What was Bell's discipline?

experiments

What did Bell do late at night?

headaches

What health condition did Bell start to have?

1873

In what year did Bell start to focus on research into sound?

Mabel Hubbard

Bell's two remaining students were "Georgie" Sanders and who?

Thomas Sanders

What was Georgie's father's name?

scarlet fever

What disease made Mabel deaf?

15

How old was Mabel when she became deaf?

smoked glass

On what material did the phonautograph operate?

metal

What kind of reed did Bell want to play with?

sound

What did Bell believe the reeds would turn the signal into?

pen

What instrument is a phonautograph similar to?

1874

In what year was Bell really working on his telegraph?

Western Union

What business was William Orton in charge of?

nervous system

In 1874 the telegraph was known as the what of commerce?

cost

What was the primary motivation for not building new telegraph lines?

Elisha Gray

Thomas Edison and what other scientist were already asked to work on a better telegraph?

Joseph Henry

Who did Bell go to see in 1875?

Joseph Henry

Who ran the Smithsonian in 1875?

Get it!

What was Henry's reply to Bell's statement that he lacked information to complete his telegraph?

Thomas A. Watson

Who did Bell meet in 1874?

electrical machine

What kind of business did Watson work at?

Thomas Watson

Who did Bell take on to work with him?

June 2

What month and day did Watson and Bell have a breakthrough?

1

How many reeds did Bell conclude he needed?

gallows

What name was given to the telephone that sort of worked?

Sanders and Hubbard

Who gave money to Bell and Watson?

U.S. profits

What did Bell promise to split with his financers?

Britain

In what country other than the U.S. did Bell try to patent his telegraph?

Britain

Which country did Bell first try to get a patent?

George Brown

Who did Bell ask to get a patent in Britain?

acoustic

What kind of telegraph did Bell create?

water

What material did Elisha Gray use to convey sound?

February 14, 1876

On what date did Gray and Bell both put in for a patent?

February 26

On what day did Bell get to Washington?

U.S. Patent Office

What office in Washington did Bell and Gray visit?

telephone

What sort of machine did Bell and Gray both try to patent at the same time?

174,465

What number is Bell's patent?

March 7, 1876

On what date did Bell get his patent?

apparatus

Bell's patent was for the method and what for transmitting vocal and other sounds telegraphically?

March 7, 1876

On what day did Bell go back to Boston?

Gray

Bell sketched a design that looked like the work of who?

liquid

What kind of transmitter did Bell put in his telephone?

Mr. Watson

How did Bell refer to his partner in his well known line?

electrical resistance

What did the vibrations cause to change?

proof of concept

Bell implemented Gray's design as a what?

March

Bell stopped using the liquid-based method after what month?

commercial use

Bell used his own design in all public demonstrations and what?

variable resistance

What part of the telephone was investigated by the patent officer?

February 25, 1875

When did Bell put in his prior patent?

mercury

What liquid did Bell use in his first application?

Zenas Fisk Wilber

Who declared himself an alcoholic?

Civil War

In what war did Wilber and Bailey fight together?

$100

How much did Wilber say Bell gave him in order to look at Gray's paperwork?

technical details

What did Bell only admit to knowing in a letter?

Mount Pleasant

From what city did Bell send his first message?

fences

Bell sent messages over wires hooked onto telegraph lines and what?

reading and singing

What did the group at the Bells house hear other people doing?

$100,000

How much did Bell et al. try to sell his patent for?

Western Union

Who did Bell et al. try to sell his patent to?

a toy

What did the President think the telephone was, such that he refused to buy the patent?

$25 million

How much the the President of Western Union want to pay for the patent later on?

Philadelphia

In what city was the 1876 Centennial Exposition?

Emperor Pedro II

What important person saw the telephone at the Centennial Exposition?

Brazil

Pedro II was the Emperor of what Country?

Victoria

Which Queen did Bell present his invention to?

1877

In what year was the Bell Telephone Company founded?

150,000

How many people in the United States had a telephone by 1886?

1879

In what year did Bell get some of Edison's patents?

carbon microphone

What addition let people stop yelling into the telephone?

Western Union

What company did Bell acquire the carbon microphone from?

January 1915

In what month and year did Bell telephone across the country?

AT&T

What company office did Bell make the original cross country phone call from?

New York

What city did Bell make the first cross country call from?

San Francisco

What city did Bell make the first cross country call to?

Thomas Watson

Who was on the other end of the first cross country phone call?

18

During how many years did the Bell Company battle lawsuits?

587

How many times were Bell's patents contested?

5

How many of the court cases wound up at the Supreme Court?

Amos Dolbear

Elisha Gray and what other man were behind many of the court cases?

misrepresentation

In 1887 the US Government wanted to undo Bell's patent due to fraud and what?

Supreme Court

The US Government lost the bid to overturn Bell's patent in what court?

9

How many years did Bell and the US Government fight in court?

precedent

What excuse did the judges have for the trial despite the fact that the patents had expired?

November 30, 1897

On what date did the US Government stop legal action?

Antonio Meucci

Who claimed to have invented the in 1834?

3

How many court trials did Meucci participate in?

American District Telegraph (ADT)

At what company were Meucci's prototypes supposedly lost?

1901

In what year did Western Union absorb ADT?

death

What event caused Meucci's trials to be dropped?

royalties

Because of their patent, what didn't Siemens & Halske have to give Bell?

Brussels

What was the home city for the International Bell Telephone Company?

1880

In what year was the International Bell Telephone Company founded?

Mabel Hubbard

Who did Bell marry in 1877?

4

How many children did Bell and Mabel have?