Word: telegrapher
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...declared the U.S. Patent Commissioner, Henry L. Ellsworth, in 1844. Men were still goggle-eyed over the recent invention of Morse's telegraph, Howe's sewing machine, Goodyear's vulcanized rubber, McCormick's reaper. Many agreed with Ellsworth that science must be near the end of its rope...
...play challenges every ounce of the Lunts' skill, but they manage some wonderfully adept pantomime and somehow turn a good many feeble gags into full-blooded laughs. Headlining its review "The Infallible Lunts," the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post was sure that, thanks to their acting, the play would run "as long as they like...
Married. Walter Sherman Gifford, 59, high-domed, precise president of American Telephone and Telegraph Co., father of two Navy sons (the elder lost in the South Pacific last July); and Augustine ("Tine") Lloyd Perry, 50, mother of four sons in the armed services; both for the second time; in Pompano...
Random Hits. Witnesses who saw the V-2 falling at night said it looked like a "falling star" or "the tail of a comet." By day, it looked like "a flying telegraph pole." Louder than V1, the rocket explosion could be heard for 20 miles...
Beautiful Opportunity. The telegraph and telephone fields have also felt the weight of Fly's hand. He improved the efficiency of U.S. telegraph service by fighting for the merger of Postal and Western Union. He insisted that long distance telephone rates be reduced; the reduction has meant a yearly saving of upwards of a quarter of a billion dollars to telephone users...