We were saddened to learn that Telecommunications History Group's founder and first Executive Director Herb Hackenburg passed away on March 2nd of 2020. By researching and writing his history book From Muttering Machines to Laser Beams Herb created within USWest an awareness about the value of its historical material.
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May2020
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May2019
CGTN's Phil Lavelle takes a look back at the first wireless phone with an interview at the Connections Museum Seattle. Ed Mattson shows us where it all began with the first space age cordless telephone and the link back to Seattle's iconic Space Needle structure. Watch the video below for ... Read More
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Apr2019
Twenty Thousand Hertz tells stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds. This episode explores how touch tone dialing changed communication forever. Enjoy this quirky look into telephone history featuring our Denver volunteer and telephone aficionado, Jim Hebbeln and author Annabel Dodd.
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Aug2018
Connections Museum Seattle held a successful Open House on July 15 & 16, hosting nearly 150 people over the two days. We celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Seattle museum with newly organized exhibits, tours, and a ribbon cutting on a new collection honoring one of our most involved supporters, ... Read More
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Aug2018
KING 5 News Seattle produced a spotlight video highlighting the Seattle Connections Museum and the launch of some of our new exhibits. In the video, KING 5's Ted Land features the AT&T videophone from the early 1990s, some of our wonderful staff and volunteers, and even King 5 News' very ... Read More
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Jul2018
Before diving into the workings of the very earliest phones, let’s talk about how they work in general. After all, the phones of today work the same way as Bell’s and all the phones of yesteryear. Sure, the trappings are different; we use computers instead of operators, air instead of ... Read More
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Jun2018
For decades the telephone became more and more popular until it became one of the center points of most everyone’s life. The telephone (and television) have become the standard way in which life is conducted, a focal point of everyone’s (and especially teenagers’) lives. And so, in an era of ... Read More
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May2018
If you’ve been around long enough to truly remember the 1970s, or even the 1980s, and you made any sort of long distance calls overseas, you remember a time when such calls were a bit like being in a vast cave and shouting out into the darkness: You might get ... Read More
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Apr2018
The development of all the bits and pieces of the telephone make for interesting reading all by themselves (or perhaps you haven’t yet read the other articles in this section!), but it is at least as interesting looking over the various inventions that lead up to the telephone—and finding out ... Read More
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Feb2018
Patents can be nutty things. Designed to protect inventors (whether individual or business) in the same way that copyrights protect authors, US patents can be applied for for any number of items, ranging from the strange and unmarketable to the most basic and valuable. The owner of a patent is ... Read More