Telecommunications began to take on special relevance in the 19th century with the invention of the telegraph, although ...

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 ...

THE reprint of this history is the same as the first edition of 1925, but it may usefully be recalled that the author brings together representative material relevant to the development of the ...

Photo illustration with Marilyn Monroe holding phone book. Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo. Spokeo examined ...

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 ...

THIS large book on the history of the telephone in the United Kingdom gathers together in a single volume an immense amount of valuable historical research on the development in Great Britain of one ...