Y101 » Alexander Graham Bell http://y101radio.com Y101 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:44:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Today Should Be a National Holiday for Alexander Graham Bell http://y101radio.com/today-should-be-national-holiday-for-alexander-graham-bell/ http://y101radio.com/today-should-be-national-holiday-for-alexander-graham-bell/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:40:08 +0000 Jeffrey Dorsey http://y101radio.com/?p=95063 If you are looking to have another national holiday declared it should be today and named Alexander Graham Bell Day.  Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847 and died on August 2, 1922  in Nova Scotia, Canada.

]]> http://y101radio.com/today-should-be-national-holiday-for-alexander-graham-bell/feed/ 0 Topical Press Agency/Getty Images We Could Be Answering the Phone 'Y101-Ahoy' Instead of 'Hello'! http://y101radio.com/we-could-be-answering-the-phone-y101-ahoy-instead-of-hello/ http://y101radio.com/we-could-be-answering-the-phone-y101-ahoy-instead-of-hello/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:57:02 +0000 Jeffrey Dorsey http://y101radio.com/?p=59005 Somethings we just take for granted and somethings we appreciate in life. One of the things we take for granted is the way we answer the telephone.  When we dial a phone number someone on the other end usually answers the phone with "hello".  Have you ever wonder how that all got started?  Who decided we should answer the phone that way?

]]> http://y101radio.com/we-could-be-answering-the-phone-y101-ahoy-instead-of-hello/feed/ 0 American inventor Thomas Edison (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)