Telegrapher
[tə'lɛɡrəfɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.
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Examples
- He was far riper in experience and practice of his art than any other telegrapher of his age, and had acquired, moreover, no little knowledge of the practical business of life. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It will be seen that the times have changed radically since Edison became a telegrapher, and that in this respect a chapter of electrical history has been definitely closed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was not interested in doing the simple routine service of a telegrapher, he wanted to see what improvements on it he could make. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Adams, already referred to as facile princeps the typical telegrapher in all his more sociable and brilliant aspects. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To-day there is little temptation to the telegrapher to go to distant parts of the country on the chance that he may secure a livelihood at the key. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Shortly after a New York telegrapher, famed for his speed, called up. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I learned afterward that he got a job there, and then within a week they had a telegraphers' strike. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The only people who did anything in electricity were the telegraphers and the opticians making simple school apparatus to demonstrate the principles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A very large proportion of the presidents and leading officials of the great railroad systems are old telegraphers, including Messrs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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