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  2. Emma Nutt - Wikipedia

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    Emma Nutt (July 1860 – 1915) [2] became the world's first female telephone operator on September 1, 1878, when she started working for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Despatch Company [3] (or the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company [4]) in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

  3. Switchboard operator - Wikipedia

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    United States phone operator in 1911. Emma Nutt became the first female telephone operator on 1 September 1878 when she started working for the Boston Telephone Dispatch company, because the attitude and behaviour of the teenage boys previously employed as operators was unacceptable. [4]

  4. 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.

  5. This Is a Recording (Lily Tomlin album) - Wikipedia

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    The album, Tomlin's first, won her a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording. [3] Tomlin became the first woman to win this award for a solo recording (in 1962 Elaine May won for an album with Mike Nichols ; in the years since only Whoopi Goldberg , Kathy Griffin , and Tiffany Haddish among female comedians have won the award.)

  6. Women in telegraphy - Wikipedia

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    The percentage of the workforce that was female was somewhat lower in western Canada. In 1917, 18 percent of the operators in Winnipeg were women. [8] During the First World War, employment on "the Home Front" included women telegraphers; for example, Beamsville, Ontario, which was also the location of an dogfighting (aerial combat) school. [9].

  7. Inez Crittenden - Wikipedia

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    She was one of the first women to join the United States Signal Corps, where her fluent French skills were in demand during World War I. [4] In January 1918, she became Chief Operator, Second American Unit of Telephone Operators, in charge of hundreds of American women who worked as interpreters in war-related telephone communications. [5]

  8. The Only Black Woman to Serve in the U.S. Army in WWI - AOL

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    A member of the 52nd Telegraph Battalion speaks on a telephone at a crossroads in the Argonne Wood near Montfaucon, Meuse, France in 1918, during World War I. Credit - US Army/Getty Images

  9. Women in early radio - Wikipedia

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    Although they were not strictly government employees, these female wireless operators were allowed to transmit in order to help the war effort. Abby Putman Morrison, from Hunter College's wireless class, became the first woman to work for the U.S. Navy as an electrician, when she was admitted as an Electrician, 1st Class. [49]