What Improvements Needed to Be Made to the Telephone Before

question 50

Multiple Choice

What improvements needed to be made to the telephone before it could be more widely adopted?

• A) The number of voices carried on a single wire had to be increased; a government department had to be created to assign phone numbers.
• B) The number of voices carried on a single wire had to be increased; the handset had to be made more comfortable.
• C) Sound needed to be made easier to hear; the number of voices carried on a single wire had to be increased.
• D) Sound needed to be made easier to hear; viewers had to be able to see the number of the person calling on the phone itself.

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