The technology industry is obsessed with the future. Many of our modern marvels are rooted in the legacy of Bell Labs, an ...

These 10 technological marvels had cultural implications that its inventors could barely have imagined.

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Many of us carry a phone our pockets these days, but have you ever wondered how it all started? Where was the first telephone installed in Wisconsin when the invention was new? We looked through local ...

Erwin Perzy I, a surgical instruments mechanic in Vienna, was experimenting with a water-filled glass globe around 1900 to amplify light when added particles drifted down like snow. The "snowfall" ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WFSB) - Before the iPhone’s marimba ringtone, before rotary phones, even before the candlestick telephone, it all started in New Haven. The New Haven Museum displays a replica of ...

Hardly a modern invention, the electric car has a history tracing back all the way to the mid-1800s. Interest in technology has boomeranged over the years based on both consumer trends and economic ...

The last day of this month is the final call for the “Hello Operator” exhibit at the Sioux City Public Museum. It features iconic telephones, historic photographs and switchboards. Museum curator Matt ...

ONTONAGON, Mich. (WILX) - On this day in 1879, Michigan’s first independent telephone company was formed. The Ontonagon Telegraph Company was formed in the tiny Upper Peninsula town of Rockland, not ...

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ESSEX, Conn. (WFSB) - The first combat submarine was invented in Connecticut. 100 years later, Connecticut is still home to the submarine. Found at the base of the Connecticut River, the CT River ...

MONTEREY — Modern? Cutting edge? Ahead of its time? Those are terms rarely applied to Highland County, the least populated locality in Virginia. But the people of Highland, determined and independent ...