Telephone, Carpet Sweeper, Phonograph, Motion Pictures

 Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847. His mother's deafness inspired him to study acoustics. Bell used a reed system to transmit sound through wires. He received confidence from Joseph Henry in 1815. He patented the telephone in 1876. The telephone lets people talk to each other from far away. Bell made the first phone call in 1876.

Belville Bissel was born in New York in 1843. He opened his own grocery store. He opened a crockery store with his wife in 1870. He invented the carpet sweeper in 1876. Bissel died in 1889, but his wife continued to sell them.

Inventors began experimenting with sound technology in the 1880s. One was the phonautograph and the other was the allophone. The phonautograph was invented in 1817 by a bookseller who lived in Paris. His name was Edwaleon Scott Demartonvil. The payphone was invented in 1877. Thomas Edison was born in Ohio in 1847. His mother trained him to be a self-learner. He invented the phonograph in 1877 (A.K.A. record player).

Edward Muggeridge (Muybridge) was born in England in 1830. He became a photographer in the 1860s. He invented the motion picture in 1874. It allowed us to make immersive entertainments. Thomas Edison got involved after meeting with Muybridge in 1888. The first Hollywood studio was built in 1911.