Alexander Graham Bell introduced the telephone in 1876, and before you know it, cities were bein... ...entury, farmers had come to see many uses for the telephone : dealing with emergencies, getting weather report... ...l isolation. Not surprisingly, they started rural telephone...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/06/12/How-the-West-Was-Wired/Just about every time something new and different... ...for our ancestors, too. People were afraid of the telephone until they got used to it. It was seen as a devic... ...les Horton Cooley wrote a typical critique of the telephone ’s influence in his book Social Organization... ...er apart. In his 1992...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/29/Dont-Panic-Why-Technophobes-Have-Been-Getting-It-Wrong-Since-Gutenberg/With phone booths becoming a thing of the past, it's becoming harder and harder to have a private phone conversation outside of your own home. With the Firstcall though, you can ensure your phone calls are quiet from tho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/01/The-Angels-Have-the-Phone-Box-But-We-Have-the-Firstcall/[http://youtu.be/XkuirEweZvM] (YouTube link)Warning: this will make you feel ancient. Dial phones were replaced by push-button phones when these kids’ parents were children (although that wasn’t universal -re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/04/Kids-React-to-Rotary-Phones/Evolutionary psychologist Robin... ...ame) and colleagues analyzed 2 billion anonymized telephone calls and 500,000 text messages to arri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/19/human-societies-are-moving-from-a-patriarchy-back-to-a-matriarchy/On March 21, 1920, the Sandusky Register reported on an astonishing invention in which W. W. Macfarlane, traveling in a car (driven by a chauffeur), held a conversation with his wife back at the garage -500 yards dow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/26/the-worlds-first-carphone/~Illustrated by:Â Joanna Ong~ Came home to find an AT&T phonebook on my doorstep. Along with a boom box and an Apple Macintosh Classic. -Â @jamiedenbo...
https://www.neatorama.com/twaggies/2011/08/30/no-456-jamiedenbo/On the one hand, it's just a number. On the other hand, there is a history and a system behind phone numbers that you might not know about. Like, why did they start using numbers in the first place? In the early days of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/12/10-fascinating-facts-about-phone-numbers/I recently read an NPR piece about the book Annoyi... ...unication. I consider that a conversation by telephone —when you are simply sitting by and not taking a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/07/mark-twain-listens-to-a-woman-on-the-phone/Before Robin Williams got his breakout role as Mork from Ork, he starred in this wonderful ad for Illinois Bell. Take a look: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Laughing Squid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/28/robin-williams-in-1977-phone-ad/
