Unit 1: A Changing Society  Agenda:  Hand in Settlement writing  Unit intro and summative  Notes: How we communicate  Writing practice

Time before Phones May 24, Samuel Morse sends message from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.

Morse Code: 1854 – 25,000 miles of telegraph wires have been laid across the US – A telegraph line spans the entire continental US 1866 – Trans Atlantic telegraph –8 words a minute Very costly

An almost phone 1861 – Johann Reis, a German physics teacher, completed an almost working version of a telephone using sausage skin, beer barrel, and a platinum bar, but it was just a fancier telegraph

More phone inventors 1871 – Antonio Meucci, an Italian immigrant, has a working prototype of a talking telegraph but is unable to pay for a patent. (honored by Congress in 2002) 1876 – Race to patents –9:30 am Elisha Gray applies for patent, doesn’t pay for it. –11:30 am Alexander Graham Bell applies AND pays for a patent –Over 600 lawsuits will be filed but the 1 st patent is given to Bell, although who invented it is debatable.

– Invention of the rotary dial phone. –Less wiring and cheaper.

1900 – 1982 Monopoly 1899 – American Bell is acquired/ renamed AT & T – American Telephone and Telegraph. –No competition and expensive. –Remains a monopoly until 1982!

Developments in technology Dr. Ring had the idea for a cellular telephone service, but the technology to support it did not yet exist touch-tone telephones were developed first cell phone call mde afrom a Motorola employee to an ATT&T employee The first commercial mobile telephone system was opened.

Writing task: formative #1 How would life be different today without cell phones? Think of all of the ways they are used today (they aren’t just phones anymore!) What would change in our daily lives. (Yes, even if you personally do not have a cell phone, you can answer this!) Expectations of response: –Well organized and use proper grammar and sentence structure –Responses should be a minimum of 200 words