Explores the invention of the telephone and how it works, tracing its development through history from the telegraph to cell phones. Includes an activity, a glossary, and an illustrated timeline.

Simple text and photographs explore the history and development of the telephone, from the earliest corded phones up to today's smartphones.

Presents the history of the telephone, explains how a telephone works, and looks at the use of telephones today.

Describes different ways children can show good manners on the telephone, and explains why it is important.

"As a 911 dispatcher, Dana Newell takes pride in being calm in tough circumstances. In addition to her emotionally-charged career, she's faced enough emergencies in her own life. She recently escaped her abusive fiancé to move to tranquil Rock Harbor where she hopes life will be more peaceful. But the idyllic town hides more danger and secrets than it first appeared. Dana is continually drawn to her new friend Boone, who has scars inside and out....

A cryptic message forces eighteen-year-old American Edda to investigate what secrets followed her across the ocean, even as she tries to make sense of her time as a telephone operator on the French front lines of World War I.

When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart, and when grief took hold of her life. Yui struggles to continue on, alone with her pain. Then, one day she hears about a man who has an old disused telephone booth in his garden. There, those who have lost loved ones find the strength to speak...

The Operator by Gretchen Berg delivers a vivid look inside the heads and hearts of a group of housewives and pokes at the absurdities of 1950s America, a simpler time that was far from simple. In a small town, everyone knows everyone else's business... Nobody knows the people of Wooster, Ohio, better than switchboard operator Vivian Dalton, and she'd be the first to tell you that. She calls it intuition. Her teenage daughter, Charlotte, calls it eavesdropping....

"This volume marks the progression of communication technology from yesterday's telegraph and Morse Code to today's state-of-the-art smartphones. Science innovators, engineers and entrepreneurs are profiled and page spreads are designed with chronological technology benchmarks. With clear text, timelines and abundant images, the changes that technology has brought to our daily lives are examined along with 'A Different View' sidebars that discuss...