A speakerphone is a device that uses a microphone and a loudspeaker simultaneously so a person(s) can communicate with others without using a headset or a handheld unit.
His scientific renown earned him honorary degrees from Yale and Harvard in 1753 and from William and Mary in 1756. In 1754 Franklin was selected to represent Pennsylvania at the Albany Congress, called to unite the colonies during the French and Indian War.
Antebellum Abolitionist Movement. Date: Early 1830s. The American Colonization Society - wanted to send blacks back to Africa - Liberia was founded for this purpose. Britain had freed slaves in West Indies. Theodore Dwight Weld - spoke against slavery -travelled through Old Northwest preaching, wrote a pamphlet that influenced Harriet Beechar Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.