Joseph Henry lays the groundwork for the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone and the telephone goes national.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo. Spokeo ...

Suffice it to say, Bell’s early phones did not resemble anything particularly recognizable to our contemporary eyes. Models from the period feature mouthpieces of varying sizes, drum-like parts and ...