The Floating Museum's first exhibit will sail the Chicago River in August. Back in May, we learned that a floating museum housed on an industrial barge would be making its way up the Chicago River this summer, bringing art exhibitions and special programming to neighborhoods throughout the city.
Web. 13 Dec. 2012. The Significance: Who: Thomas Edison Alexander Graham Bell. What: The inventions they contributed to the World were: Telephone, Telegraph, Cameras, Printing Telegraph(Device to record information about the gold price), Electricity through a wire, Light bulb.
In 1876, Scottish emigrant Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be granted a United States patent for a device that produced clearly intelligible replication of the human voice. This instrument was further developed by many others. The telephone was the first device in history that enabled people to talk directly with each other across large distances. Telephones rapidly became indispensable to businesses, government, and households, and are today some of the most widely used small appliances.