Inventions

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Three stories exploring different Victorian inventions. The first story is told by John Russell, an engineer who worked on the construction of the Crystal Palace. In the second, Thomas Watson, assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, tells the story of how he helped to make the first version of the telephone. The third story is told by John Kruesi, an engineer working for the inventor, Thomas Edison. Kruesi describes how he helped make working models of the machines designed by Thomas Edison, and in particular the phonograph in 1877.