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86/100 Possibilities~ 100 Possibilities Project set

 

Happy Birthday to Alexander Graham Bell, who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone (there’s some dispute) . . .

 

I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall

If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall

I know he's there, but I just had to call

Don't leave me hanging on the telephone

 

It's good to hear your voice, you know it's been so long

If I don't get your call then everything goes wrong

I want to tell you something you've known all along

Don't leave me hanging on the telephone

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPq9tF1FbnA

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell

 

Alexander Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 3 March 1847. Throughout his early life, Bell was a British subject.

 

Alexander Graham Bell thought the telephone should properly be answered by saying, "Hoy! Hoy!" -- an odd term from the Middle English that became the sailor's "ahoy!" and reflected Bell's sense that those speaking on early telephones were meeting like ships on a lonely and vast electronic sea.

 

The Russians say slushaiyu (I'm listening). The hipper Russians say allo. Italians say pronto (ready). The Chinese say wei, wei (with a pause between the words, unlike the Japanese mushi-mushi). Wei, wei is meaningless, except as a formula to answer the phone.

 

www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,969269-2,00.html

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone

 

blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1334

 

www.museumphones.com/facts.html

 

 

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