WWI Maker Activity: Telephones

The U.S. Army adopted the telephone as soon as it was invented, using it in the Spanish-American War. In 1917 General Pershing asked the War Department to recruit women to serve overseas as telephone operators to pass messages between the front lines and headquarters. In this maker activity from the Virginia Cooperative Extension 4-H, young students will explore the importance of telephones to the war and do a hands-on activity.