The original telephone technology, which was introduced in the late 1800s. Analog phones convert sound (air vibrations) into analogous electrical frequencies. Many homes and small offices still ...

Instead, in the years since, email has continued to grow in importance. Today, telephone calls are less common than ever and more of an organizational big deal. I receive more and more emails ...

For many kids, the tin-can telephone is a fun science experiment that doesn’t last much longer than it takes to tangle the string around a nearby tree. [Geoff] decided to go a different however ...

Though Joseph Henry earned his fame as the first director of the Smithsonian Institute, he was in many ways the telephone's first and best advocate. Alexander Graham Bell himself said as much when ...

Even though email and other computer-based communications have taken precedence in business, telephone communications continue to be a primary means. Many customers, contractors and institutions ...

Telephone triage in the dermatology practice is unlike telephone triage in other specialties, in several ways. First, there are few dermatologic emergencies, so the threshold question will not ...

That’s not how it works, kid. / Insung Jeon/Moment/Getty Images People who grew up with smartphones probably never carried around a tiny personal phone book to keep track of all their various ...

Now listen to two more telephone conversations. Both conversations contain phrases you might hear if you dial a wrong number. As you listen, see if you can hear some of the phrases above.

Now listen to a telephone conversation between the finance department of a company and Jennifer McAndrews. Jennifer wants to talk to Adrian Hopwood but he's not available so she has to leave a ...

On March 10, 1876, the world's first successful telephone transmission of clear speech using a liquid transmitter took place when Bell spoke into his device, "Mr. Watson [Thomas A. Watson, Bell's ...

A 24-year-old motorcyclist was killed Saturday night after he struck a telephone pole in a shopping plaza parking lot in Mercer County, police reported Sunday. Manuel Ramones-Vicuna, of Hamilton ...

Sasha Fierce. But it was a follow-up to their 2009 song, "Telephone" from Lady GaGa's The Fame Monster that fans have long waited for. The Lady Gaga chart-topping song saw Beyoncé feature and co ...