In the year 1900, for a women to be a telephone operator she had to be between the ages of 17 and 26 and not be married.

Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.

On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.

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