In Hello! you’ll read about anxiety over telephone charges, queues for telephone boxes, long-distance phone calls, receiving-party-pays systems, prank callers and nuisance calls. The telephone has left its mark on film and literature, music and theatre. Some telephone calls have changed the world, others have altered the direction of people’s lives. This book is full of fantastic facts and photographs spanning a period of 160 years.

A highly informative and entertaining book about how one invention changed the world, becoming humanity’s most cherished possession and most important tool.