Estimated Time: 10 minutes

At the end of chapter 2, the author mentions the phone ringing and says,

"It rang just that half ring, as if the girl at the switchboard realized she had rung the wrong room and had jerked out the cord before the ring was finished."

Today, we don't have switchboards for our telephone calls. Let's learn about the history of the telephone.

Here's a fun song about Alexander Graham Bell.

Have you seen an old telephone switchboard at a museum?