Word: telegrapher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, the friendly reviewer pulls the usual journalistic blooper, when he says that although deafened, Edison "could hear distinctly the click and clatter of telegraph keys." This would qualify him for supernormal hearing, because a simple telegraph set consists of key and sounder, the former to send on and the latter to receive from...
FIRST TELEPHONE CABLES between continental U.S. and Puerto Rico are being laid under 1,250 miles of ocean, in joint project by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and International Telephone & Telegraph Co., at cost of $17 million. Deepest cable in the world (five miles) will be ready for use in February 1960, replace current radio circuits and allow direct dialing for most calls...
...could hear distinctly the click and clatter of telegraph keys, and Tom Edison left home at 16 for the wandering life of the 19th century telegrapher. During the Civil War and the years of the Reconstruction, Edison drifted from Ontario to Tennessee, living in poor boardinghouses and working in shabby Western Union offices, where he rigged up devices to electrocute roaches and rats. When he was 22, Edison landed in New York without a cent. He borrowed a dollar and got a job with a company that manufactured primitive stock tickers. As a repairman, Edison witnessed the 1869 Wall Street...
Boot-Faced Aunts. Among the most significant results of the elections was the fact that the Labor Party had lost much of its appeal to youth. Said London's Tory Daily Telegraph: "The younger generation regards the Socialists either as strangers or as a collection of austere, button-booted, boot-faced, half-fossilized aunts, embittered by grim repressions and memories of something nasty seen down in the coal mine." The Mirror, a shrill echo of Labor Party slogans, plainly shared in Labor's loss of appeal to youth...
Before surrendering their copy to the pajama-clad Laotians in Vientiane's flyspecked telegraph office, savvy correspondents pointedly wrapped it around a bottle of cognac. One newsman begged the native telegrapher not to send his stories last page first, finally won his case with smiles. Everyone craftily slugged dispatches "urgent," but the imperturbable telegraphers were unimpressed; crisis or no, they shut up shop every night at 7:30, leaving newsmen to gnash their teeth at 24-hour delays in transmission...