Lost Coast Outpost4d
HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Building Out Humboldt’s First Telephone Network, Town by Town and Switchboard by Switchboard
Middle: Maude Hedley is the switchboard operator in this 1899 scene at McLaren’s store in Fortuna. Right: Ted Jennings and ...
The Press and Journal4d
‘Amateur hour!’ Aberdeen Town House clock an hour early ALL WEEK
An icon representing logout. An icon that resembles human head and shoulders. An icon of a traditional telephone receiver. An icon of a tick mark. An icon of a human eye and eyelashes. An icon of ...
Ironton Tribune3d
The final ride: Radio DJ Jesse James passes away
By Terry L. Hapney, Jr. The Ironton Tribune “You’re riding with the James Gang—on Good Times and Great Country, 103.3 WTCR.” ...
Lost Coast Outpost4d
HUMBOLDT HISTORY: Building Out Humboldt’s First Telephone Network, Town by Town and Switchboard by Switchboard
Early attempts at transmitting sound resulted in the speaking tube and the tightly stretched string used in the tin-can-type toy telephone. Many inventors worked on the problem of an electric ...
Lifewire on MSN6d
The Evolution of Cellphones: Understanding Networks and Coverage
Mobile, erect and use their own cellular towers and control the level of cellular coverage they can provide. Cellular ...
Live Science on MSN14h
Origins of world's earliest writing point to symbols on 'seals' used in Mesopotamian trade
Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade ...
The X-factors that could tilt a wild presidential race
Voters who have not yet cast ballots will head to the polls Tuesday, bringing one of the most wild and vitriolic presidential ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
April White
no case was too frivolous or too controversial A telephone monopoly and a fear of wiretapping kept the invention out of homes for decades A world in a hurry turns to a lumbering early 20th-century ...
Forgotten in the 1800s, unearthed decades later, 7 ancestors put to rest by Neville Public Museum
The crew found they unearthed the remains of five more people, six total. The other five were in pine boxes lined up in a row ...
ArtReview33m
The Derzhprom Building and the Erasure of Ukraine’s Avant-Garde
Russia’s recent strike on Kharkiv’s Constructivist complex represents an attack on a radical yet largely forgotten legacy of anti-colonialism ...
From 1933 To 1973, Maine's Women's Hockey History Was Rooted In Waterville
The first game of women's hockey on record in Maine took place in 1933 at a winter carnival. Since then the game has ...
Strong storms are hitting parts of the US for the third straight day after spawning destructive Oklahoma tornadoes
More severe weather is expected in the Southern Plains Monday as residents in Oklahoma survey the destruction from ...