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Segment featuring telecommunication technologies and operations.Close up of female operator speaking into her headset cutting to her hand putting wires into holes for telecommunication connections. Cut to a medium shot panning over many woman in a row sitting and doing the same thing. Back to close up of a hand pulling and inserting wires into equipment. Illustrated rendering of Samuel Morris using metallic wire for transmission of coded words. Shot zooming into the electrical telegram device he invented. Cut to another illustration of Morris surrounded by people in high dress in front of one of his devices. Cut to a man using that device. Illustration of men putting up telecommunication poles in the historic, rural west. Still picture of a group of men who were delegates assembled to discuss and create the International Telegram Bureau. Close up of pages being turned detailing Morris Code laid over footage of a person tapping out code onto equipment. Illustration of men working seaside by ships and industry when the telegraphs were being constructed all over the world. Illustration of Alexander Graham Bell. Still image of the first model of the telephone.