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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876—right? Well, actually, a German schoolteacher managed to do it fifteen years before Bell, (1) . In 1860 Philip Reis rigged up what (2) . This instrument was built from an improbable assortment of items: a violin, a knitting needle, an ear carved in wood, even a piece of sausage. \" I succeeded in inventing an apparatus by which ...one can reproduce sounds of all kinds at any desired distance....I named the instrument [the] \'telephone.\'\" It worked—but poorly. So Reis kept tinkering with it. He hooked up a wire between his workshop and the school, which convinced his students that he was using the telephone to eavesdrop on them. (3) . and his models became more and more sophisticated. Eventually Reis sent some improved models of his telephone to scientists around the world. They could transmit music fairly well, (4) . \"Single words were perceptible indistinctly,\" said one listener. Nobody seemed very impressed. Most scientists at the time regarded the Reis telephone as little more than a toy. Crushed, (5) , and died of tuberculosis in 1874. Two years later, Alexander Graham Bell filed the patent that earned him the glory and (6) . A) but speech came out garbled at best В) he worked on his telephone for several years C) financial rewards of telephone invention D) he tried to build a better telegraph E) but he didn\' t have very good PR F) it was of no importance in a business light G) he described as an \"artificial ear\" H) he abandoned work on it L E T THERE BE LIGHT Thomas Alva Edison is considered one of the greatest inventors in history. In 1877 and 1878 , Edison invented and developed the carbon microphone (1) in all telephones. Edison is (2) for the electric light bulb. Contrary to popular belief, he didn\'t invent the light bulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-(3) -old idea. The problem other inventors (4) was the ability to make it work for lon g periods of time . Edison solved this problem and created a light bulb that sustained ligh