Operator

Examples

• There he called up Pittsburg and asked for their best operator. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The operator had worked so mechanically that he had handled the news without the slightest knowledge of its significance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They furnished an operator, Edward Hadley. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When the bottle is nearly full, the operator quickly withdraws it with one hand, and having a cork ready in the other, he puts it in before the water can rush out. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Asking the operator the best direction, he pointed west, and noticing a rabbit in a clear space in the sage bushes, I said, 'There is one now. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One day the day operator wanted to get off, and I was on duty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Now the operator has to adjust himself to his machine, instead of his tool to his own purposes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The telephone receiver was held on the head with a spring, the flexible connecting wire being attached to the lap board, thus leaving the operator with both hands free. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The operator in Fig. 6 is shown assembling switch plugs and is in the act of driving home a screw which holds in place the fiber bar over which the cord bends. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A stream of this liquid has been directed upon a circuit of 110,000 volts without the least harm to the operator. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In point of speed the typewriter depends entirely upon the aptness of the operator. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• After calling on the Government people we started to interview the telegraph operator at this most lonely and desolate spot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The operator next sends the letter M by depressing the appropriate key. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In a flash the operator switched on the current and the two men stood as if transfixed, hanging desperately to their weapons that were held aloft as by some giant’s hand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This was one aspect of life as it presented itself to the sensitive and observant young operator in Louisville. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was in this way Edison made his way south as far as Memphis, Tennessee, where the telegraph service at that time was under military law, although the operators received $125 a month. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Instinctively the operators looked from one face to another to see which man had received the news. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• After two months of very hard work, I got a detail at regular times of eight operators, and we got it working nicely from one room to another over a wire which ran to Albany and back. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• About fifteen hundred of the best operators in the country were at the front on the Federal side alone, and several hundred more had enlisted. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Of him Edison says: Adams was one of a class of operators never satisfied to work at any place for any great length of time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The instruments in the handsome new offices were fastened in their proper places, and operators were strictly forbidden to remove them, or to use the batteries except on regular work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Many of the old operators, taken on out of good-nature, were poor exhibitors and worse accountants, and at last they and the machines with which they had been intrusted faded from sight. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He could not understand it, neither could any of the other operators; for we used to hide my impromptu automatic recorder when our toil was over. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Ellsworth possessed in a remarkable degree the skill of imitating these peculiarities, and thus he deceived the Union operators easily. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Greater precaution than this cannot be imagined, illustrating as it does, that no effort has been spared to protect the lives of the operators. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At the same time operators have always been shrewd enough to regard the telegraph as a stepping-stone to other careers in life. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Telegraph operators were naturally in touch with this movement, and Edison's fertile imagination was readily inflamed by the glowing idea of all these vague possibilities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Stanton said that the usual live-stock accompaniment of operators' boarding-houses was absent; he thought the intense cold had caused them to hibernate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At this point I happened to look up, and saw the operators all looking over my shoulder, with their faces shining with fun and excitement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Such fire alarms can be exchanged automatically, or by operators, and are sometimes associated with a large fire-alarm bell or whistle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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