After Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, its use spread quickly through the United States. The first telephones came into use in Tuscarawas County in the 1890s, mostly in larger ...
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 ...
It was goodbye for "hello girls" in Fort Wayne a century ago when switchboards were replaced May 30, 1925, with an automatic telephone system. The cutover was made by the Home Telephone and Telegraph ...