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My Sisters Telegraphic
Thomas C. Jepsen
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Description for My Sisters Telegraphic
Paperback. A history of female telegraph operators from 1846 to the mid-20th century, exploring their work, their daily lives and their workplace issues. It uses non-traditional sources, including the telegraphers' trade journals, company records, and oral and written histories by the operators. Num Pages: 214 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ1; KNTT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 458. Weight in Grams: 399.
The role of the telegraph operator in the mid-nineteenth century was like that of today’s software programmer/analyst, according to independent scholar Tom Jepsen, who notes that in the “cyberspace” of long ago, male operators were often surprised to learn that the “first-class man” on the other end of the wire was a woman.
Like the computer, the telegraph caused a technological revolution. The telegraph soon worked synergistically with the era’s other mass-scale technology, the railroad, to share facilities as well as provide communications to help trains run on time.
The strategic nature of the telegraph in the Civil ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821413449
SKU
V9780821413449
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About Thomas C. Jepsen
Thomas C. Jepsen, author of numerous articles on the history of telecommunications technology, is a telecommunications systems architect in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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