Not every Rolodex was alike. (The word is a trademark, by the way, a fusion of “rolling” and “index.”) There were big ones and little ones, ones with covers and ones without.

Rolodex, né Zephyr American, was no slouch when it came to inventing useful office devices. The Rolodex was an improvement on a similar device called the “Wheeldex.” The company’s employees also ...

Now that I can open the Contacts app on my iPhone and find the information in a few seconds—or better yet, just ask Siri to look it up—the idea of rifling through Rolodex cards seems a tad quaint.

The Rolodex is a cylindrical rotating card file on a tubular metal frame that holds A-Z index cards to store business contacts. Even today, the Rolodex has endured. It is still available on the market ...

Things are meaningless, former Gov. Rose Mofford said. “It's our relationships that add so much to our lives,” she said. But then I got one of her things. It's more than that, too.