The telephone:

Provides the history of the telephone and its inventor Alexander Graham Bell, its technological development, the growth of the telephone industry, and conveys the power of invention and its impact on American life

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Video VHS
Language:English
Published: [Alexandria, Va.] PBS Video c1997
Edition:PBS video index version
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Summary:Provides the history of the telephone and its inventor Alexander Graham Bell, its technological development, the growth of the telephone industry, and conveys the power of invention and its impact on American life
Item Description:VHS.. - Broadast as an episode of The American experience. - PBS Video database accessed via World Wide Web. - Specially prepared set enhanced by PBS with time code visible on the screen. - Supplemented by the "PBS VIDEOdatabase of America's History & Culture Merged Index" which provides subject references to specific videocassette volume numbers within the series and to specific locations within individual videocassettes according to on-screen counter numbers indicating number of minutes and seconds elapsed within a specific referenced videocassette. - Curriculum resources available on database for video. Videos in database referenced by grade level, academic area, historical period, and standards correlation. Selected lesson plans for instructors available on database
Host, David McCullough ; narrated by Morley Safer
Cinematography, Buddy Squires ; editor, Bruce Shaw ; music, Richard Einhorn
Physical Description:1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) sd., col. with b&w sequences 1/2 in

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