Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call from a downtown Boston laboratory on this day in history, March 10, 1876. "Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you," Bell wrote in his own account ...

Telecommunications began to take on special relevance in the 19th century with the invention of the telegraph, although ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Author Ella Schwartz — who has an inquisitive mind and pens fiction and non-fiction books for young readers — is in the habit of always asking questions and trying to learn new ...

Photo illustration with Marilyn Monroe holding phone book. Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo. Spokeo examined ...

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 ...