Before the iPhone’s marimba ringtone, before rotary phones, even before the candlestick telephone, it all started in New ...

To hear Paul Violette of the New Hampshire Telephone Museum tell the story, anyone who thinks today’s communication technology is far beyond the old telephone system doesn’t understand how it all ...

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 ...

Executive Director Laura French of the New Hampshire Telephone Museum (center) takes a photos stand as members finish installing the telephone booth on Wednesday, May 25, 2002. French worked with ...

From 19th century wall-mounted telephones to nostalgic rotary dials, the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum gives visitors an opportunity to explore the history of telecommunications. The museum is ...

The fact you don’t have to dial 0 for operator when you call your mom? You have a Kansas City undertaker, Almon Strowger, to thank for that. “He felt like a lot of his business was being diverted to ...

All of the telephone history in the Frank H. Woods Telephone Pioneer Museum — the antique walnut phones, the pastel princesses, the fiddlebacks and candlesticks — has new owners. Nelnet, Speedway ...

The Frank H. Woods Telephone Pioneer Museum — housed in an old building in the new Telegraph District — is shutting down. “We’ve had a pretty good run,” said curator Wally Tubbs. “We would have liked ...

"Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you!" Alexander Graham Bell’s famous request to his assistant came on March 10, 1876, just days after his telephone patent was granted. Bell demonstrated his ...