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 ...
Mysterious engraved pictographs may have led to the earliest form of writing
A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...
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 ...
Live Science on MSN21h
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 ...
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 ...
ZME Science on MSN2h
These 5,000-year-old seals might have paved the way for the invention of writing (and the birth of history)
Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.
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 ...
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 ...
A Brief History of Car Touchscreens
The world's very first infotainment touchscreen came in the 1986 Buick Rivera. In-car screens became something of a novelty ...