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  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. List of obsolete occupations - Wikipedia

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    A switchboard operator connected calls by inserting a pair of phone plugs into the appropriate jacks on a manual telephone switchboard. [215] Switchboard operators were gradually phased out and replaced by automated systems, first those allowing direct dialing within a local area, then those for long-distance and international direct dialing ...

  5. Hello Girls - Wikipedia

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    Hello Girls was the colloquial name for American female switchboard operators in World War I, formally known as the Signal Corps Female Telephone Operators Unit. During World War I, these switchboard operators were sworn into the U.S. Army Signal Corps. [1] Until 1977 they were officially categorized as civilian "contract employees" of the US Army.

  6. History of the telephone in the United States - 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 telephones or telephone networks. [39] The switchboard operator was a person who manually connected calls by plugging and unplugging cords on the switchboard.

  7. Telephone exchange - Wikipedia

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    In a manually operated switchboard, this current flowed through a relay coil, and actuated a buzzer or a lamp on the operator's switchboard, signaling the operator to perform service. [20] In the largest cities, it took many years to convert every office to automatic equipment, such as a panel switch.

  8. For the Love of Mary - Wikipedia

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    For the Love of Mary is a 1948 American romantic comedy film directed by Frederick de Cordova and starring Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, Don Taylor, and Jeffrey Lynn. [1] [2] Written by Oscar Brodney, the film is about a young woman who takes a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and soon receives help with her love life from Supreme Court justices and the President of the United ...

  9. Susie A. Parks - Wikipedia

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    Susie Ashcraft Gregg Parks Kendrick (October 22, 1895 – April 19, 1981) was the telephone switchboard operator of the southern New Mexico town of Columbus, on the southern border of the United States.