American Experience - Season 9 (1996)

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The telephone was first introduced at the Centennial Exposition in 1876 and was an instant success. Although first rented only to "persons of good breeding" and seen as an expensive luxury for doctors and businessmen, the telephone soon transformed American life. Trees gave way to telephone poles as operators known as "hello girls" began to connect a sprawling continent.

A biography of Philo Farnsworth, an inventor of the television.

Follows the construction of the New York City subway system in the early 1900s.

The story of the female investigative reporter, Nellie Bly and her race around the world in less than 80 days.

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