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  2. Switchboard operator - Wikipedia

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    A telephone switchboard is a device that allows telephone lines to be interconnected, enabling the routing of calls between different phones or phone networks. [17] The switchboard operator was a person who manually connected calls by plugging and unplugging cords on the switchboard.

  3. History of the telephone in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.

  4. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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    Telephone exchange names often provide a historical, memorable, and even nostalgic context, personal connection, or identity to a community. They can therefore often be found in popular culture, such as music, art, and prose. An old 2L-5N format appears in the song title "PEnnsylvania 6-5000" (phone number PE 6-5000), recorded by Glenn Miller.

  5. Murder of Diane Maxwell - Wikipedia

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    On December 14, 1969, 25-year-old Diane Maxwell (b. 1944) was walking to her job as a phone operator for Southwestern Bell, but never made it to the building. [1] Later that day, a man by the name of William Bell noticed a man walking away from a shack.

  6. Category:Defunct telecommunications companies of the United ...

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    Alabama Telephone Company; All American Direct; American Cable and Radio Corporation; Ameritech; Andrew Corporation; AT&T Communications (1984–2010) AT&T Corporation; Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company; AT&T Broadband; Automatic Electric

  7. List of United States telephone companies - Wikipedia

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    Telephone and Data Systems, (through its subsidiary TDS) serves mainly rural areas in parts of 36 states. [3] Altafiber, formerly known as Cincinnati Bell, which serves the Cincinnati metropolitan area, and Hawaii (due to its ownership of Hawaiian Telcom). [4]

  8. Telephone switchboard - Wikipedia

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    PBX switchboard, 1975. A telephone switchboard is a device used to connect circuits of telephones to establish telephone calls between users or other switchboards. The switchboard is an essential component of a manual telephone exchange, and is operated by switchboard operators who use electrical cords or switches to establish the connections.

  9. Emma Nutt - Wikipedia

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    In January 1878, the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company had started hiring boys as telephone operators, starting with George Willard Croy. [5] Boys (reportedly including Nutt's husband [2]) had been very successful as telegraphy operators, but their attitude (lack of patience) and behavior (pranks and cursing) were unacceptable for live phone contact, [6] so the company began hiring women ...