AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
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It improved our health.
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It made travel easier and faster.
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It made it easier to communicate.
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It helped us learn how to save energy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alexander Graham Bell did not think he was inventing a ‘telephone’ during his early experiments. He was working on the holy grail of the day: sending multiple telegraph messages over the same wire. He aimed to make electro-mechanical devices capable of transmitting and receiving different tones for each message.
Detailed explanation-2: -He also worked in medical research and invented techniques for teaching speech to the deaf. Bell’s extensive range of genius included patents for the telephone and telegraph, the photophone, aerial vehicles, and hydro-planes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Bell’s mother was deaf, and his father and grandfather were famous in England for their work in a field of speech development called elocution. This inspired Bell to study speech and communication as well.