History: Inventions

History: Inventions - Typing Practice Lesson

The telephone, the airplane, the printing press and the light bulb

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In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call. Before then, people sent letters or telegrams, which could take hours or days. In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The first flight lasted only 12 seconds, but it changed how people travel.

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