The former Ohio Bell Telephone Building was in the news recently after it was announced that owner AT&T had sold the building to a private investment company for $14.9 million. The building played an ...

With the help of his father-in-law, Alexander Graham Bell organized the first telephone company, The Bell Telephone Company. The company started out as a joint-stock company and was founded in Boston, ...

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Cincinnati Bell’s recent plans to transform itself into a technology and entertainment provider doesn’t mean it is hanging up on phones completely. Voice service will still be a part of the company’s ...

Since its founding by Alexander Graham Bell, AT&T; Corp. has been synonymous with the telephone. But the venerable corporate giant once known as “Ma Bell” may soon be eaten by one of its young. SBC ...

The acquisition of BellSouth Corp. by AT&T Inc. would bring more than half of the traditional telephone business back under one roof and into the company once known as “Ma Bell,” whose history dates ...

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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 he ...

This beautiful Christmas tree, from 1952, stood in the telephone office building on the corner of Kootenai and Main streets.

The smartphone has mostly replaced an apparatus once known as the “horn,” “squawk box,” “blower” or “heater,” and at times the vintage device “rang off the hook.” The first words were transmitted via ...