Throwback: Telephones Then and Now
The patent for the telephone was issued on March 7, 1876.
The long life of the telephone
A French officer of the Allied Armistice Commission uses the telephone at the Kaiser's former headquarters in Spa, Belgium, at the end of World War I, 1918. During World War I, telephone use was so common phone lines were strung along the trenches of battle so troops could communicate with each other without cumbersome and unreliable radios. (Getty Images)
