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.
To get the answer to that question, we need to look back more than a century. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. And then in 1900, on December 23 on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., an inventor named Reginald Fessenden accomplished a remarkable feat: He made the first wireless telephone call.y the 1960s, Bell Labs engineers Richard H. Frenkiel and Joel S. Engel developed the technology that could support Young's design of a cellular network. But as AT&T sought permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to develop a cellular network, a competitor made a bold and cheeky move in 1973.