1955: The laying of the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable
1957: Field tests for the first pagers begin in Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1958: Princess Phones are introduced, the first phone with a lighted dial, which became a part of American pop culture
1960: The first touch-tone telephones are test-marketed, which had 10 buttons, rather than the 12 buttons of today
1963: Hotline established between White House and Kremlin following the Cuban missile crisis
1968: 911 chosen as the nationwide emergency number. The nation’s telephone companies agree to make this three-digit sequence unavailable as an exchange number