Home / Series / The Machines That Built America / Aired Order / Season 1 / Episode 5

Telephone Wars

Two daring inventors go head-to-head in a fight that will forever change the way humans connect when communication giant Western Union offers a colossal cash prize to anyone who can improve its network. Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray will stop at nothing to lay claim to the new technology and dominate the market. But there can be just one winner in this battle that ultimately leads to the advent of the world's most common device: the telephone.

English Deutsch Português - Portugal español français
  • Originally Aired August 8, 2021
  • Runtime 42 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-PG
  • Network History
  • Created August 9, 2021 by
    mwxd88
  • Modified July 25, 2023 by
    capucine196tx9