II. IN the preceding article we traced the history and development of the magneto-telephone. This instrument, even if it served.no other purpose, has given to physicists a galvanoscope of surpassing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...