telegraph operator
Clicks out messages
A telegraph operator was a person who transmitted and received messages using Morse code or similar systems, typically employed by telegraph companies, railroads, or news services.
The job required skill in rapidly encoding and decoding electrical signals.
The telegraph operator tapped out the message as fast as the words came.
The occupation largely disappeared with the telephone and later technologies.
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- Morse codeDot-dash signaling system
- wireThin metallic conductor
- copper wireMetal strand conducting electricity
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transatlantic cable · Western Union · code · message · Samuel Morse · click · lineman · Victorian era · dispatcher · railroad · wireless telegraphy · spark · signal · telephone · pulse · key · tapping · telegrapher
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telegraph operatormessenger
One who delivers communications
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