Robots have been coming for our jobs for more than a century now. Almon Stroger, an undertaker, invented the first automatic telephone switch. He believed that the local switchboard operator was ...

Besides working the switchboard, the veteran operator often "walked" the lines to locate breaks, especially after the death of her husband earlier that summer. The phone subscription total went ...

One of the most modern private automatic branch telephone exchanges in the United States was placed in operation recently at the International Falls plant. Installed, ...