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 Spokeo examined historical documents, news reports, and other sources to ...
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 ...
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 ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WFSB) - Before the iPhone’s marimba ringtone, before rotary phones, even before the candlestick telephone, it all started in New Haven. The New Haven Museum displays a replica of ...
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 ...
Clear Lake made history in 1879 when a man named George Frost placed a phone call from the lakeside town to the Cerro Gordo County Courthouse in Mason City. It was the first long-distance phone call ...