The Fore River Shipyard started out as a farm in East Braintree, Mass., when Thomas Watson bought it. Watson had loaned money...
The Tariffville disaster, a train wreck near Hartford, prompted the first-ever emergency telephone call when a doctor summoned help from a local...
In January of 1878, George Coy of New Haven, Conn., gave birth to a new American tradition – the wrong number. Butt...
When Emma Nutt reported for work at the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston on Sept. 1, 1878, she became the...
The Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Mass., has a connection to two famous phrases. “Mr. Watson, Come here, I want to see...