Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

I can’t help but wonder how long it will be before the movie title “Dial M for Murder” becomes mysterious to most of the population. After all, who has seen a dial phone lately? Sure, there are a few ...

Born in 1949, I grew up with dial telephones and party lines. In addition, as I understand it, the first two numbers of telephone numbers related to letters of the name assigned to the telephone ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – In today’s world of cellphones, stored phone numbers and automatic dialing, we don’t need to remember anybody’s phone number. But back in the day of rotary-dial and push-button ...

Almost accidentally, we have a new addition to our living room décor that has prompted much conversation among our friends. In July, we made a trip to Monroe to visit friends who took us to all sorts ...

Corpus Christi got its first telephone exchange in 1890, at the same time it got its first electric light poles. The Corpus Christi Electric Light Co., owned by Dr. A.G. Heaney, T.P. Rivera and John ...

The film "Dial Comes To Town" depicts a family's conversation about the introduction of dial telephones in their town. The characters express mixed feelings about the transition from traditional ...

The pulse-dial telephone and its associated mechanical exchange represents the pinnacle of late-19th and early-20th century electromechanical technology, but its vestiges have disappeared from view ...

Stuart Sliter, 84, says it wasn’t all that hard filling in as a telephone operator as a preteen more than 70 years ago since plugging a cable into the proper place on one of two switchboards simply ...

ROCKLAND — Bells are ringing and lights flashing as you walk into the Rockland Switchboard and Telephone History Discovery Center in an old converted sandpaper factory near the center of town. The ...

Telephones got their start in the late nineteenth century, connected through exchanges. In the early twentieth century, however, Bell introduced a new dial system, and needed to tell callers how to ...

This program begins with the installation of the first telephone system in NH in 1878. This program begins with the installation of the first telephone system in NH in 1878 and ends when the last ...