These days cellphones are basically extensions of our bodies, so it might be hard to imagine life without them. But the world’s first telephone call — or, more specifically, the first time a ...

Imagine a world without quick calls across continents, no video calls with your loved ones, no urgent work calls, no whispering sweet nothings from a distance. On 10 March 1876, in a cluttered Boston ...

Professor of History, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University “Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.” Hardly momentous words, but their implications were enormous. Spoken by ...