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  1. Telephone | History, Definition, Invention, Uses, & Facts | Britannica

    Oct 9, 2025 · Telephone, an instrument designed for the simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice. It has become the most widely used telecommunications device in the …

  2. Holly Hunter | Biography, Movies, & Facts | Britannica

    Oct 24, 2025 · In addition to her stage work, she played small roles in a few television movies as well as in Jonathan Demme ’s 1984 film Swing Shift, and that same year she was an …

  3. Telephone - Invention, Alexander Graham Bell, Communication

    Oct 9, 2025 · Telephone - Invention, Alexander Graham Bell, Communication: Beginning in the early 19th century, several inventors made a number of attempts to transmit sound by electric …

  4. list of country calling codes - Encyclopedia Britannica

    To dial a telephone number in another country, one dials the international prefix (011, when dialing from a landline in the U.S.; cell phones use the plus sign [+]), the country code, the …

  5. telephone - Kids | Britannica Kids | Homework Help

    The telephone is a very common device for communicating over a distance. With a telephone, a person can talk almost instantly with someone on the other side of the world.

  6. Alexander Graham Bell | Biography, Education, Family, Telephone ...

    Oct 18, 2025 · Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) was a British-American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf whose foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone …

  7. How the Telephone Was Invented | Britannica

    Overview of the invention of the telephone, with a focus on the work by Alexander Graham Bell.

  8. Telephone - Network, Communication, Technology | Britannica

    Aug 29, 2025 · To make a call, a telephone subscriber begins by taking the telephone “off-hook”—in the process, signaling the local central office that service is requested.

  9. History of Trick-or-Treating | Halloween, Samhain, Guising, Souling ...

    Oct 23, 2025 · Early Halloween celebrations leaned heavily toward tricks. During the Great Depression these pranks sometimes turned dangerous—cars were overturned and telephone …

  10. John Kennedy - Encyclopedia Britannica

    Nov 5, 2025 · John Kennedy (born November 21, 1951, Centreville, Mississippi, U.S.) is an American politician who was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican in 2016 and began …