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American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Alexander Graham Bell has created one of the most important inventions in history. Now all he has to do is fight a business partner who doesn't care and a corporate monster that wants to destroy him.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American innovations, add free on Amazon music.
0:05.6	Download the app today.
0:10.0	March 10, 1876.
0:22.3	Boston, Massachusetts.
0:24.5	Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson, keep on tipping sideways on their
0:29.9	workbenches.
0:31.5	They're exhausted, but shake themselves awake to keep on working.
0:36.0	Outside, a nor Easter rages.
0:38.7	The wind sounds human.
0:40.8	Branches scrape against the window like they're asking to be let in.
0:44.7	Inside, the pair of men make the latest upgrades to an invention as spooky as the night itself.
0:51.0	A machine that, if it works, will be able to pluck a man's or woman's voice from one
0:56.8	room and drop it in another.
0:59.8	Are we ready for the test run?
1:01.5	I think we are.
1:03.3	Watson carries the receiver into the next room, unspooling wire behind him as he goes.
1:08.8	Bell stays behind with the transmitter.
1:11.8	He hears Watson take a seat in the distance.
1:14.6	They're ready to begin.
1:16.0	Or no, wait.
1:18.0	Bell narrows his eyes at the transmitter.
1:21.0	That knob looks loose.
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