After accidentally dropping her cell phone into a fountain at the mall, fourteen-year-old Devi Banks starts to get phone calls--and an earful of advice on how to live her life to avoid making disastrous choices--from her seventeen-year-old self.
Examines the invention of the telephone and how it has shaped America, discussing telegraphs, sales, building networks, competition within the industry, and other related topics.
Dates are setup over the phone by Diane and her friends resulting in some intriguing situations. Soon phone-warfare is declared. With all the confusion over the phone, will these girls ever find romance?.
Traces the history and development of the telephone, discussing how everyone in the world has been brought closer together by the invention and how the technology has changed throughout the years.
Text and color photos introduce young readers to telephones, explaining how they work; describing various types of phones, the phone number system, and the phone's invention; and providing a glossary and an annotated list of further resources.
Presents a short history of the invention of the telephone, how people communicated before it, early telephones such as the Reis transmitter and receiver in the 1860s, and Alexander Graham Bell's initial intention to provide a machine for the deaf.
A short biography of Alexander Graham Bell that profiles his life and works which included the invention of the telephone, which he originally intended to be a device to help the deaf.
