Today is National Landline Telephone Day, marking the date when Alexander Graham Bell made his first phone call in 1876. The invention gradually became ubiquitous, and today we’ve all got phones in ...

Thanks to the Touch-Tone telephones, the day when every family may be able to do its banking, bill-paying, and even shopping by the push of a button is fast approaching. Already, banks, factories and ...

It may be hard to believe now, but in the 1920s people had to learn how to dial, much like we once learned how to text. Do you remember the first time you sent a text message? I remember that it took ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - Lane Handke called his wife, Cathleen, the other day to tell her he was bringing home the shelves they needed to finish their cabinet. The call cost him 25 cents ...

In East Granby, next to the library, through a winding trail of budding trees, sits a phone booth. The phone inside is not connected to any wires. When the receiver falls off the hook there is no dial ...