CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Julie Farthing suspects that the telephone in her kitchen was installed sometime between the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Truman administration. It’s black, it’s rotary and it’s ...
James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. As far as I’m aware, rotary cell phones never existed. The two technologies didn’t overlap much ...
Rotary phones, once a staple in the typical mid-century living room, were largely relegated to dusty basements and landfills following the introduction of the push-button touch-tone phone. But ...