Inventions which changed the world - The Telephone

Task 1

After watching the above programme please answer the following questions:

Q1 What animal has been carrying messages for hundreds of years?

Q2 What ‘Invisible’ energy was suggested to be able to send messages?

Q3 Samuel Morse invented what?

Q4 What two things make up the code?

Q5 What was the problem with the copper wire?

Q6 What had Grey worked out to do?

Q7 Which company did Bell leave behind when he dies?

Q8 What role did the telephone play in the war?

Q9 Where was the first hotline to America hidden?

Q10 How did they plug Churchill’s leak?

Q11 How did this device work?.

Q12 What was Arthur?

Task 2

They can use the computer room and work in pairs if an ICT room is available or students could also work on paper.

In pairs or threes they are to complete some or all of the following:

Who do you think really invented the Telephone and why?

Research and explain how the telegraph machine worked – Use drawings, diagrams and descriptions

Extension Task

Design a poster about Bell and Gray – what did they invent, and what went wrong? Why did Bell get the title of ‘Inventor of the Telephone’?