A History of the Telephone That Wonks Out on the Wonder of Those Wires

James Gleick’s latest book is an encyclopedic homage to the technology that dominated life, romantic and otherwise, in the ...
JSTOR Daily

How the Phone Book Taught America to Ask for Answers

A collection of Texas directories from 1913 to 1959 shows how phone books—and the people who used them—helped invent ...
Harvard Gazette

Hello? How the telephone transformed human connection

Alum’s new history traces evolution of technology — from party lines to mobile devices — and how we’ve changed with it.
Yahoo

The history of the American phone book

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 ...