In a lighthearted conversation, a couple discusses the revolutionary invention of the telephone, initially doubting its practicality. The husband, John, explains how technology like loading coils and ...

April 25 th is National Telephone Day, when the long and storied history of the telephone is celebrated. While it is commonly known that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, the phone ...

The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and shipping booms, profound scientific discoveries, and the invention of the ...

Clear Lake made history in 1879 when a man named George Frost placed a phone call from the lakeside town to the Cerro Gordo County Courthouse in Mason City. It was the first long-distance phone call ...