What is one way thomas edison and alexander graham bell changed american culture?

a. their success encouraged other people to invent new products.
b. their success encouraged other people to become city planners.
c. their failure discouraged other people from using electricity.
d. their failure discouraged other people from creating new inventions.

The correct answer to you're question is:

~A. Their success encouraged other people to invent new products.

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The correct answer is A, as their success encouraged other people to invent new products.

Thomas Alva Edison was an entrepreneur and a prolific inventor, considered the most important inventor in the US. He developed many devices that have had great influence around the world, such as the phonograph, the film camera or a durable incandescent light bulb. Nicknamed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", Edison was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of chain production and large-scale teamwork to the invention process, which is why he is credited with creating the first laboratory of industrial research.

Edison was a prolific inventor who registered 1,093 patents to his name in the United States, as well as others in the United Kingdom, France and Germany. But more important than his many patents was the broad impact of some of his inventions: electric light and public electricity supply, sound recording and cinematography became powerful new industries all over the world. His inventions contributed in particular to telecommunications, such as a voting machine, a battery for an electric car, electric power, recording music and movies. His advanced work in these fields was no more than a continuation of his first job as a radiotelegraphist. Edison developed a system of generation and distribution of electrical energy to homes, businesses and factories, a crucial advance for the modern industrialized world.

Alexander Graham Bell was a British scientist, inventor and speech therapist, naturalized American, who contributed to the development of telecommunications and aviation technology.

After a series of procedures (which would continue for years in the form of legal claims), he obtained in 1876 the patent of the telephone in the United States, even though the device had already been developed previously by the Italian Antonio Meucci, who was officially recognized in the US and posthumously as inventor of the telephone more than one hundred and twenty years later, on June 11, 2002. Regardless, the company that Bell created to exploit the patent, the Bell Telephone Company, was the protagonist of the first steps of the dizzying implementation of the telephone as a means of mass communication on an international scale.

Many other inventions occupied much of Bell's life, including the construction of the hydrofoil and the aeronautical studies.