Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo. Spokeo examined historical documents, news reports, and other sources to ...

Having encountered the breathtaking Telephone Museum of New Mexico in Albuquerque on Route 66, it's hard to resist a trip down memory lane. According to the story by CNet, from Alexander Graham Bell, ...

The telephone has undergone a drastic transformation since its invention, and there’s one place chronicling its evolution — the Roseville Telephone Museum. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made history ...

On a recent Sunday, the Verizon Telephone Pioneers Museum in Commack transported visitors back to a time when telephones were not computers or cameras or gaming devices. At its open house, guests got ...

Miss Alice Sternad was busier than ever at the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company long distance switchboard on Christmas Day, 1946. She was one of 400 operators handling from 25,000 to 30,000 calls.

Stuart Sliter, 84, says it wasn’t all that hard filling in as a telephone operator as a preteen more than 70 years ago since plugging a cable into the proper place on one of two switchboards simply ...

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call from a downtown Boston laboratory on this day in history, March 10, 1876. "Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you," Bell wrote in his own account ...

On Wednesday, tech giants Oracle and Google will square off before the Supreme Court to argue what some have called the “copyright case of the century”—and in this time of COVID-19, the argument will ...