In addition to the long curly cords, and the part where they are permanently attached to a wall, old-fashioned landlines have something else that we’ve lost in the cell phone revolution: a dial tone.

Today is National Landline Telephone Day, marking the date when Alexander Graham Bell made his first phone call in 1876. The invention gradually became ubiquitous, and today we’ve all got phones in ...

Does a cellphone have a dial tone? Mobile cellphone never have a dial tone. Before the cellphone came into common usage, a dial tone on a landline told you that the line was available; however, it is ...

Homework time for David Curtis should make him the envy of fourth-graders across America. Instead of working only with books and papers, David also sits in front of his TV set. There, he selects and ...

In East Granby, next to the library, through a winding trail of budding trees, sits a phone booth. The phone inside is not connected to any wires. When the receiver falls off the hook there is no dial ...

It may be hard to believe now, but in the 1920s people had to learn how to dial, much like we once learned how to text. Do you remember the first time you sent a text message? I remember that it took ...