Alexander Graham Bell uttered his famous words in 1876, when he invented the telephone. On Jan. 25, 1915, the esteemed inventor was in New York and talking to Watson, not in the next room, but across ...

“Mr. Watson, come here, I need you.” (In some sources, “I want you.”) These were the first words spoken on the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, its inventor. The historic phone call took place on ...

In 1846, Elmira had telegraph service to Ithaca, but service stopped due to lack of use In 1865, Western Union opened a line from Buffalo to New York, with an office in Elmira In late 1877, Elmira’s ...

The 1890s saw telephone service expanded to all parts of Idaho, in Boise and other small towns. In November 1904 the Idaho Daily Statesman reported: “The telephone line along the Ridenbaugh Canal will ...

One-hundred-year-old newspaper clippings are all Gene Coogan has to substantiate the story he'd been told as a little boy. And he doesn't even have the originals anymore. Instead, photocopies of the ...

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 ...

We all know the famous words of Alexander Graham Bell, “Mr. Watson. Come Here. I need you” spoken in 1876. That first use of a telephone occurred in Bell's lab in Boston. Of course, Bell didn't stop ...

The Vancouver Barracks received Clark County’s first telephone in October 1878, connecting the arsenal to headquarters. Soon two more phones were installed. In 1879, soldiers strung the first ...