THE WEEK IN HISTORY

February 21, 1878 First telephone directory published On February 21, 1878, the first telephone directory was published in New Haven, Connecticut. It listed the names of the 50 businesses and homes that had telephones—an invention by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Later in 1878, New Haven expanded the directory and included rules: Calls were to be limited to two minutes, and only two calls could be made per hour per telephone.…

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