cheap transport, larger populations and more millionaires. Immigrants meant cheap labor, new lines of business. Alexander Graham Bell (574) Who: inventor When: 1876 What: invented the telephone. HS: made the nation telephoniacs and lured women to the switchboards as phone operators. Thomas Alva Edison (574) Who: inventor Where: New Jersey When: 1847-1931 What: invented the phonograph, mimeograph, Dictaphone, moving picture, and the lightbulb. HS: made kerosene obsolete and altered…
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