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 vintage film demonstrates the procedures and techniques used by telephone operators for toll dialing. It covers the essential equipment, including the dialing key and tool, and illustrates how ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEVADA COUNTY, Calif. (KTXL) — One might ...

ST. LOUIS — Our Vintage KSDK goes back 69 years to the day long distance calling took a huge leap forward. On April 16, 1955, St. Louis Mayor Raymond Tucker placed a call to the mayor of San Francisco ...

This column was originally published on Nov. 7, 1993. The little group was made up of what you could call mature citizens, of which I was one, and we were talking about how things used to be. A woman ...