Classwork for MRS.CAS's " x am Post Attendee - Zoom x Reading Progress Check C 9% f1.apps.elf.edmentum.com/assessments-delivery/sa/progresstest/launch/537630/45296479/aHROCHM6Ly9mMS5hcHBzLmVsZi5IZG1IbnR1b$5jb20vbGVhcm5lc. Student Bookmarks All Bookmark Previous 5v Next Reading Progress Check Submit Test Reader Tools 1 Info Save and Exit The Telephone Alexander Graham Bell won a United States patent for the telephone in 1876. A patent meant that no one else could claim that they had invented the telephone. Bell began working with telegraph machines. He wanted to send sound waves over a telegraph wire using a multi- reed system. It could be tuned like a harp. He did not have the equipment to experiment with his idea. Then Alexander met Thomas Watson. Watson was an electrical designer who became Alexander's assistant. They found that only one reed was needed to make sounds. Together the men built a telegraph that could send sounds. The waves did not sound like voices yet. On March 7, 1876, Bell received the patent for his invention. Bell kept working on the telephone. On March 10 of the Which of these sentences best summarizes this image? same year, Bell and Watson made the telephone work. Bell and Watson then improved the telephone. In August 1876, O A. Alexander Bell did not have the equipment required to experiment with his idea for the telephone. Bell sent a telegram to a town five miles away. People in the telegraph office could hear voices on the telephone. O B. Alexander Graham Bell won a United States patent for the telephone in 1876. The next day, Bell strung a telephone wire across six miles. The message sent over the telephone wire could be O C. Bell and Watson conducted various experiments to test the use of telephone over long distances. heard clearly. This showed that the telephone worked over long distances. O D. Thomas Watson was an electrical engineer who assisted Alexander Graham Bell. Bell's invention became popular very quickly. By 1886, @2025 Edmentum. All rights reserved. CB 1 May 12 10:56 9 1