Telephones

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.