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April 25 th is National Telephone Day, when the long and storied history of the telephone is celebrated. While it is commonly known that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, the phone ...

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 ...

Yes, it’s cliché. But it’s also true: everything is bigger in Texas (OK, maybe not everything). Although, it’d be hard to argue that any state has more towns with weird names than Texas. Ninety miles ...