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 ...

Smartphones have become so significant in our modern day lives it’s difficult to imagine not having one attached to your person or within a short reach at all times. For many, realizing you ...

Though Joseph Henry earned his fame as the first director of the Smithsonian Institute, he was in many ways the telephone's first and best advocate. Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when he ...

Person-to-person telephone calls do not command the primary communication role they once had back before the information age blossomed. Businesses have numerous other options for communicating now, ...