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- Season 2 Apollo 13: Triumph on the Dark Side of the Moon
- Season 2 Patton and the Desperate Tank Attack
- Season 2 Alexander the Great and the Devastating Catapult
- Season 2 Al Capone and the Machine Gun Massacre
- Season 2 Stormin' Norman and the Stealth Fighter
- Season 2 Lincoln and the Flying Spying Machine
- Season 2 Alexander Graham Bell & the Astonishing Telephone
- Season 2 Da Vinci and the Handgun
- Season 2 The Red Baron and the Wings of Death
- Season 2 Saddam Hussein and the Nerve Gas Atrocity
- Season 2 Galileo and the Sinful Spyglass
- Season 2 Enzo Ferrari and the Historic Race
- Season 2 JFK and the Crisis Crusader
Man, Moment, Machine - Season 2 Episode 7 Alexander Graham Bell & the Astonishing Telephone
0.00 60 minutes In one of those historical moments when a revolutionary invention dovetailed perfectly with the period that ensconced it, Alexander Graham Bell's March 1876 invention of the telephone functioned as the ideal accessory to America's then-burgeoning (and then-nascent) industrial age. In the process, this invention permanently displaced the telegraph as the chief method of interpersonal communication across lengthy distances. The History Channel documentary Man, Moment, Machine: Alexander Graham Bell and the Astonishing Telephone ventures back to the 1870s for a biographical portrait of Bell and a detailed account of how the telephone came about. The program touches on such subtopics as Bell's discovery of the invention amid his ambitious attempt to cure deafness, and his rivalry with fellow inventor Elisha Gray - a competition that almost caused Bell to be written out of history forever.
