If you're like us, you've got so much old junk sitting up in your attic or tucked away in that shed in the backyard that you don't have the foggiest idea what all is there. Well, it may be time to ...

Alexander Graham Bell might be amazed today to see what forms his invention has taken, from cell phones to satellite phones. You can see historic models dating to the late 1800s at Saturday’s Antique ...

Today's phones go by names like Droid, Sensation, Galaxy, iPhone and Blackberry. But back in the late 1800s, it was pretty cool to have a Watt & Co. coffin phone. That phone and about 300 others will ...

Downers Grove resident Greg Russell was born a bit late to have met Alexander Graham Bell, but chances are the two would have gotten along famously. Russell, owner of Telephonymuseum.com, an ...

Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, ...

Antique finds are always in style, and new trends featuring retro designs pop up year after year. Every now and then, certain outdated items make a big comeback to bask in the limelight of a new ...

When we make a telephone call in 2020 it is most likely to be made using a smartphone over a cellular or IP-based connection rather than a traditional instrument on a pair of copper wires to an ...

Instructables user [apple_fan] likes vintage telephones from the early 1900s, but while they are nice to look at, they’re clearly not too useful nowadays. He decided to change that, and retrofitted an ...

The project aims to create a wireless doorbell that consists of subscriber line interface circuit, Arduino, antique phone, and battery-operated doorbell. The project aims to create a wireless doorbell ...