Synopsis
Edison stumbles upon an important development in the way people answer the telephone.
- Programme: Horrible Histories
- Series: 5
- Episode: 9
- Channel: CBBC
- Broadcast year: 2013
- History
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Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
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