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Module Overview (objectives, requirements)
The Invention of the Telephone (Introduction)
Problem Statement
Assignments of this module
Requirements on notebooks
Prepare a caveat
Prepare a patent
Present the patent
Present Group Process
Final Paper and presentation
Criteria for success
Advice on working in groups
Oral Patent presentation guidelines
History and Resources:
Bell Notebooks Online
Background on Bell and his invention
Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone
Master Map of Bell's invention process
AT&T TrueVoice
Who Invented the Telephone? - from Ethical and Environmental Challenges to Engineering (Gorman, Mehalik, Werhane)
Sample Student Patents
BLERK
An Improvement on the Telephone
Exhibits
Exhibit 1: Bell's first patent (1876)
Exhibit 2: Gray's Caveat
Exhibit 3: A page from Bell's notebook
Exhibit 4: Bell Hands-On Simulation Rules and Materials (same as Module Overview above)
Exhibit 5: Modern versions of Bell's telephone
Liquid Transmitter (picture)
Magneto Receiver/Transmitter (picture)
Carbon Transmitter
Photophone Transmitter (picture)
Exhibit 6: Bell's second patent (1877)
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