The business decided to employ women operators and Emma Nutt was the first woman telephone operator. Early switchboard operation was not the easiest of jobs, demanding a high degree of accuracy ...

In the early 1920s, AT&T, the telephone monopoly that grew out of Alexander Graham Bell’s Bell Telephone, was America’s largest employer, and specifically employed many women as operators, who ...

AI lessons from the telephone operators of the 1920s. In the early 20th century, thousands of young women worked as telephone switchboard operators.

Vintage Telephone Technology: Switchboard Operators & Long-Distance Calls. Posted: March 11, 2025 | Last updated: March 11, 2025. This vintage film demonstrates the procedures and techniques used ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed how people communicate at work: Nearly half of people videoconference more, 43% email more, 42% call more, and 41% text more than before the pandemic ...

A telephone switchboard and its operator in 1935. (Source: Library of Congress) During his 77 years, Dennis Hall has seen a lot of changes in rural communications. More than that, he’s lived those ...

Jacqueline Kennedy drops in at the switchboard room at Democratic Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 4, 1960, to meet the telephone operators and thank them for their aid during the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed how people communicate at work: Nearly half of people videoconference more, 43% email more, 42% call more, and 41% text more than before the pandemic ...

From switchboard operators to Zoom: The evolution of workplace communications. By Stacker. November 8, 2022 10:57 AM. Published November 3, 2022 11:41 PM ...