Women in telegraphy
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Women in telegraphy have been evident since the 1840s. The introduction of practical systems of telegraphy in the 1840s led to the creation of a new occupational category, the telegrapher, telegraphis
Miss Ethel Wakefield, a Western Union telegraph PBX operator, pictured in 1943.
The Central Telegraph Office, London, 1874. Source: Illustrated London News, December 12, 1874.
A telegraph operator in the 1940s.
Telegraphy
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Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semap
Women in telegraphy
…Women in telegraphy have been evident since the 1840s. The introduction of practical systems of telegraphy in the 1840s led to the creation of a new occupational category, the telegrapher, telegraphist or telegraph operator. Duties of the telegrapher included…
Replica of a Chappe telegraph on the Litermont near Nalbach, Germany
A section of the Great Wall of China built during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
19th-century demonstration of the semaphore
A site in Hammersmith London (UK) where Sir Francis Ronalds constructed the first electric telegraph in 1816