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History
How telephone communication contributed to the emancipation of women, but automation eventually took their jobs away
February 01
How Pupinisation and Triodes Helped Spread Telephone Networks across the Globe
January 26
How the first telephone arrived in the Russian Empire—mistakenly delivered instead of a crate of wine
January 24
How a public-private partnership helped create the telephone network in Germany
January 10
How left-wing populists in the Fifth Republic nationalised the telephone service, stalling its development for years
January 10
How the British government tried to regulate and nationalise the telegraph and telephone, and the results of their efforts
November 22, 2023
‘Oriental’ goods imported into Russia during the 17th and 18th centuries: the early history of parallel imports
November 07, 2023
How the small Bell Telephone Company battled both patent trolls and the giant Western Union corporation over patent priority
October 16, 2023
The challenging life of late 19th-century start-ups, or an MVP for the Queen
September 04, 2023
What the telephone owes to Emperor Pedro II of Brazil
August 29, 2023
What Soviet-era children's magazines can tell us about life at the time
January 28, 2022