The telephone came to Carroll County in 1884, only eight years after Alexander Graham Bell was granted his second patent on March 7, 1876 – four days after his 29th birthday. President Rutherford B.

Telephone exchanges were referred to as ‘central offices’ or ‘wire centers’. These were buildings (service centers) that housed the equipment for a particular geographical region’s public switched ...

It was one of those too-rare instances when a lot of clicking and digital pulling-on-threads and serendipitous stumbling-on-facts actually resulted in something other than another hour lost down the ...

On this day 107 years ago in 1915, the first transcontinental telephone call was made between New York City and San Francisco. The call was part of an advertising campaign by the American Telephone ...

As a pandemic rages, schools across the U.S. have shut down, and students are struggling to continue their education at home. In Long Beach, California, a group of high schoolers is among the first to ...