History Knox Mark Sebastian Jordan authors a column each Saturday reflecting on the community's historic legacy. MOUNT VERNON — The possibilities that new technology offers are so exciting, it could ...

Continuing last week’s letter from Alec to Mabel, legal matters had progressed exceedingly well with the telephone patent suit against Western Union. As Alec wrote, their lawyer had opted to base the ...

Alexander Graham Bell summoned Mr. Watson and changed the world. Bell’s revolutionary technology made its way from Boston to ...

There has been an unspoken, and often physically violent, war over the past one hundred years between continents, cultures and claims.

The simple landlines once used to call friends or family evolved into omnipresent glossy screens that flood our brain with ...

There are fundamentally two ways to generate electricity. The first is based on electromagnetic induction, which remains the ...

Many new Canadians must prove their knowledge of Canada’s history, government and culture. How does yours stack up?

1868 – The U.S. Congress enacted legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the Federal government. 1868 – ...

On March 10, 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell first uttered ‘Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you’ to his assistant Thomas Watson, into his simple apparatus, it sizzled across ...

In A View, From a Bridge a person on a bridge picks up a phone and shares their view with the world. It's compelling viewing.

About National Telephone Day Origin National Telephone Day is observed on the anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone in 1876.

On this day in Boston history, the first ever successful phone call was made. Many know the story of the telephone's invention by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, ending in the call with ...