If you're like us, you've got so much old junk sitting up in your attic or tucked away in that shed in the backyard that you don't have the foggiest idea what all is there. Well, it may be time to ...

Although it can be hard to imagine in today’s semiconductor-powered, digital world, there was electrical technology around ...

Today's phones go by names like Droid, Sensation, Galaxy, iPhone and Blackberry. But back in the late 1800s, it was pretty cool to have a Watt & Co. coffin phone. That phone and about 300 others will ...

The Treasury Department, conceding that it has no right to continue collecting a 108-year-old tax on long-distance telephone calls, announced yesterday that it will drop its legal battle for the tax ...

Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, ...

Mike Lazer-Walker has repurposed a 1927 Western Electric 551-A switchboard into a hectic game that tasks players with quickly learning the obsolete job. “Hello, Operator!,” although controlled by a ...

Instructables user [apple_fan] likes vintage telephones from the early 1900s, but while they are nice to look at, they’re clearly not too useful nowadays. He decided to change that, and retrofitted an ...

Someone thought that Pokia’s retro handsets were a good idea—good enough to swipe. Boost Mobile’s new ‘Vintage Telephone Handset’ plugs into a variety of Motorola i-series handsets available on the ...