BRINGING TOGETHER ALL OF THE ARTICLES ON DIALING FROM THE FIRST 13 EDITIONS OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. By examining the topic over a period of a century and a half, we are able not only to get a comprehensive treatment but also to see how the various subtopics in dialing, and indeed the topic of dialing itself, evolved and devolved in importance Ð at least in the view of the Britannica editors.