Operators

Examples

• 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.
• In addition to the regular force, there was an extra force of two or three operators, and some stranded ones, who were a burden to us, for board was high. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The operators there had been much annoyed by an army of cockroaches that used to march across the table where they put their lunches and make a raid on the sandwiches and pies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In addition to these great drills, more recent inventors have brought out small machines for single operators, worked by the electric motor. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• That kept him busy at night, but he refused to sleep during the daytime as other night operators did, and used that time to work on his own schemes. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• When in a telegraph office, I could only hear the instrument directly on the table at which I sat, and unlike the other operators, I was not bothered by the other instruments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The first machines worked all right for the inventor, but inexperienced operators obtained surprising results through punching the keys and jerking the crank. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Cincinnati office, as a central point, appears to have been attractive to many of the clever young operators who graduated from it to positions of larger responsibility. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The next morning I was summoned before him, and told that what the company wanted was operators, not experimenters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A modern studio is now maintained on the fourth floor of the factory--the staff of skilled operators numbering twenty. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If there was any danger of friction or collision from the ill-regulated zeal of so many young operators, her gentle Come! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It was found out a couple of days afterward that there were three night operators at Louisville. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He also relieved the monotony of office-work by fitting up the battery circuits to play jokes on his fellow-operators, and to deal with the vermin that infested the premises. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I had picked the best operators in New York, and they were familiar with the apparatus. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As a usual thing it was only necessary for them to board a train and tell the conductor they were operators. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The operators were also assigned to particular headquarters, and never changed except by special orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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