Interview With Janet Allen
Question #1: How did the invention of the telephone change your life as a
child?
Response: "Growing up as a child, I was not allowed to use the
telephone nor was my sister. The telephone was used for serious matters back
then so we could not use it until our teenage
years."
Question #2: What was the telephone
like when you were a child?
Response: *We had a 'rotery dial
phone' which was very different than the phones now. If you wanted to call
someone you would have to put your finger in a hole in a metal circle with the
corresponding number and then turn it clockwise. This was done for every
number.
* We had something called a party line where 2 or 3
people would talk on the same line.
Question
#3: Why did people want a phone?
Response: "Telephones made
it easier to communicate with others such as relatives, etc. People didnt have
to get out of their house to talk to
people."
Question #4: How did the telephone
affect society?
Response: "Without the telephone, most
people would have to communicate by letter. Then after the telephone was
invented, people had a much easier and faster way to
communicate."
Question #5: For what was the
telephone used?
Response:*People could use them to contact a
doctor for a house visit
*You could order groceries to have them
deliverd to your house
*Socializing, however that was rare.
Telephones were for more a serious
matter.
Question #6: Besides Alexander Graham
Bell, what other people were publicly credited with helping invent the
telephone?
Response: "I don't recall who else
were credited. It seemed as though Alexander Bell had invented it all himself,
at least that's what we had been
told."
Question #7: What do you know about the
fight for the patent of the telephone with a man named Elisha grey and
Alexander Bell?
Response: "I do recall hearing
about a man who had invented the telephone right as Alexander did but that's all
I remember."
Question #8: What other
inventions do you know Alexander was popular for?
Response:
" I am pretty sure that he had invented the metal detector and that he was into
aeronautics."
child?
Response: "Growing up as a child, I was not allowed to use the
telephone nor was my sister. The telephone was used for serious matters back
then so we could not use it until our teenage
years."
Question #2: What was the telephone
like when you were a child?
Response: *We had a 'rotery dial
phone' which was very different than the phones now. If you wanted to call
someone you would have to put your finger in a hole in a metal circle with the
corresponding number and then turn it clockwise. This was done for every
number.
* We had something called a party line where 2 or 3
people would talk on the same line.
Question
#3: Why did people want a phone?
Response: "Telephones made
it easier to communicate with others such as relatives, etc. People didnt have
to get out of their house to talk to
people."
Question #4: How did the telephone
affect society?
Response: "Without the telephone, most
people would have to communicate by letter. Then after the telephone was
invented, people had a much easier and faster way to
communicate."
Question #5: For what was the
telephone used?
Response:*People could use them to contact a
doctor for a house visit
*You could order groceries to have them
deliverd to your house
*Socializing, however that was rare.
Telephones were for more a serious
matter.
Question #6: Besides Alexander Graham
Bell, what other people were publicly credited with helping invent the
telephone?
Response: "I don't recall who else
were credited. It seemed as though Alexander Bell had invented it all himself,
at least that's what we had been
told."
Question #7: What do you know about the
fight for the patent of the telephone with a man named Elisha grey and
Alexander Bell?
Response: "I do recall hearing
about a man who had invented the telephone right as Alexander did but that's all
I remember."
Question #8: What other
inventions do you know Alexander was popular for?
Response:
" I am pretty sure that he had invented the metal detector and that he was into
aeronautics."