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Telegraphist

Operator who uses a telegraph key to send and receive the Morse code

Telegrapher, dated before 1927 from the Tropenmuseum collection

A telegraphist (British English), telegrapher (American English), or telegraph operator is a person who uses a telegraph key to send and receive Morse code messages in a telegraphy system. These messages, also called telegrams, can be transmitted electronically by land lines, or wirelessly by radio.

History

During the First World War, the Royal Navy enlisted many volunteers as radio telegraphists. Telegraphists were indispensable at sea in the early days of wireless telegraphy, and many young men were called to sea as professional radiotelegraph operators who were always accorded high-paying officer status at sea. Subsequent to the Titanic disaster and the Radio Act of 1912, the International Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) conventions established the 500kHz maritime distress frequency monitoring and mandated that all passenger-carrying ships carry licensed radio telegraph operators.

Notable telegraphists

Harold Bride
Harold Cottam
Louisa Margaret Dunkley
Thomas Eckert
Thomas Edison
John H. Emerick
Mathilde Fibiger
Ambrose E. Gonzales
Oliver Heaviside
Emma Hunter
Joseph Nathan Kane
Juscelino Kubitschek
Hiram Percy Maxim
Mary Macaulay
Seeb Chunder Nandy
Jack Phillips
Franklin Leonard Pope
John Willard Raught
Leah Rosenfeld
David Sarnoff
Ola Delight Smith
Wilhelmina Magdalene Stuart
Ella Cheever Thayer
Ella Stewart Udall
Alfred Vail

References

(January 1953). "International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1948, London, 10th June, 1948". Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

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