PANAMA CITY — One ringy-dingy. No, the famous character Ernestine is not on display at the History Museum of Bay County, but a telephone switchboard similar to the one she used on the TV series "Laugh ...

While watching a video about old radios from the 1920s, a phone jack popped up. The host mentioned that phone jacks are super old and he wondered what was their origin. I always assumed they had ...

He hired a woman named Emma Nutt away from her job at a telegraph office, and on this day, Sept. 1, in 1878, she became the ...

The Museum of Sonoma County has a telephone switchboard that is 6 feet high and 4 feet long on display. There is no need to explain how technology has affected communication. The immediacy of ...

Mike Lazer-Walker has repurposed a 1927 Western Electric 551-A switchboard into a hectic game that tasks players with quickly learning the obsolete job. “Hello, Operator!,” although controlled by a ...

Before smartphones, most people kept in touch using landline telephones. And before direct dialing was common, some calls were handled by switchboard operators. During the 1950s, more than 220,000 ...