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 ...
My Edmonds News8d
Murder on the line: The Edmonds ‘Hello Girl’ who overheard a confession
May 21, 1922 It was a dark and drizzly spring morning when a call came into the Edmonds Independent Telephone Exchange.
Brattleboro Reformer8d
Enjoying a fall visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame
I have been to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, three times in my life. The first time was in the early ...
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.” ...
The New York Times15d
Ward Christensen, Early Visionary of Social Media, Dies at 78
A few years later, the two began discussing how they might build a system that could send information between computers via telephone lines ... a computer history archivist who made an online ...
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 ...
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 ...
inforum14d
From tarantula bites to corporate greed, the dark history of a banana empire
One man's quest to build an empire brought insufferable work conditions and death to thousands, government exploitation and ...
Treehugger on MSN11d
Who Invented Solar Panels? Discover the History of Solar Energy
The history of solar energy was one of fits and starts, driven by individual inventors and scientists. Discover major solar ...
Alaska Dispatch News9d
The early history of dudes in Alaska
Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David ... Still, a tour through the early “dudes” of Alaska is illuminating and entertaining. The Klondike gold rush ...
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 ...