This Competition is open to independent pubs that have been nominated for being a cornerstone of their local community (”Nominee”). An independent pub is one which is not owned by, or part of, a ...

How telegraph wires strung through trees in 1850 grew into switchboards, local phone companies and, eventually, the AT&T legacy in Cape Girardeau and Jackson, Missouri.

Throughout human history, certain inventions have fundamentally transformed the way we live, work, and interact with one ...

A 23-year-old man was arrested after a car flipped in a crash with a telegraph pole, leaving three injured and taking down ...

On March 17, 1927, the Newhall Telephone Exchange marked a significant milestone, expanding to 100 telephones after ...

A producer of drag shows, Oliver Kelly of Easthampton, was putting up promotional flyers on downtown utility poles and vacant storefront windows in February 2025 when a city employee followed behind, ...

Local historian Jan Petersen shares her perspective on the early days of telecommunications, including her own experience working as a telephone switchboard operator in the 1980s.

Underneath Tokyo’s bustling metropolis lies a maze of concrete tunnels built by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation to hold telephone and Internet cables. Photo: Alexander Martin/The Wall Stree ...

We heard like a roar go over the house, and then everything just started,” said the co-owner of the Ponderosa RV Park off Ga.

How the conglomerate boom collapsed, why LBOs followed, and what a Swedish trading company figured out sixty years ago that Wall Street still hasn't fully credited.

Alexander Graham Bell spoke the first sentence over a phone line to his assistant, Thomas Watson, on March 10, 1876, in downtown Boston.

Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call on March 10, 1876, setting off a revolution in communication ...