telegrapher
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From his first teenage days as a railroad telegrapher and newspaper publisher, Edison exhibited “the traits that distinguished him as an inventor — contrary thinking, obstinate repetition, daydreaming, delight in difficulty,” Morris writes.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
Booksh earned a living as a telegrapher for the railroad system - a job he had since he was 17 and maintained throughout his various tenures as Addis’ mayor for 42 years.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 12, 2015
When she was a baby, her family moved to Washington, where her mother worked in a dress shop, her father as a railway telegrapher.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2014
He left school at 15, worked as a reporter for a dog-racing journal and joined the Royal Navy as a telegrapher aboard destroyers in World War II.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2010
He said over his shoulder to the telegrapher, “Those Hamiltons! Just look at them!”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
When the Titanic hit an iceberg while crossing the Atlantic in 1912, its telegraphers desperately sent out distress calls hoping somebody, somewhere might hear them.
From BBC ● May 21, 2023
Roberts commissioned an annual count of the number of words filed by telegraphers from the Masters pressroom to compare with that of the U.S.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 8, 2020
As the nation stumbled through the Depression, telegraphers and radio announcers ushered the young Joe Louis to the heavyweight throne as the first popular African-American sports idol.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2015
Regular use would, Johnston wrote, prevent telegraphers from dying of consumption, an illness to which they were particularly prone from long hours in unventilated spaces.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2014
In 1883 a few railways used the telephone in a small way, but in 1907, when a law was passed that made telegraphers highly expensive, there was a general swing to the telephone.
From The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert Newton
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