The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “How people kept in touch before cell phones.”
- America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
- Universal service in telephone history: A reconstruction
- Answering the call of automation: how the labor market adjusted to mechanizing telephone operation
- Historical Census of Housing Tables: Telephones
- Postal history Rates for Domestic Letters Since 1863
- FCC Releases Study on Telephone Trends
- The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition