The operator became the early face of the telephone, a human behind an emerging and complex technology. The job came to be occupied mostly by single, middle-class White women, often known as "Hello ...

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The patent for the telephone turns 150 today, the first call was made three days later on March 10, 1876. Before the phone: ...

Before smartphones, landline telephones were the way most people kept in touch. And until direct dialing became common, a switchboard operator's assistance was often needed to help with long-distance ...

He hired a woman named Emma Nutt away from her job at a telegraph office, and on this day, Sept. 1, in 1878, she became the ...

This curious colloquy took place last week in Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute, where engineers of Bell Telephone Laboratories and a trained operator demonstrated a complicated electronic device ...