My Sisters Telegraphic: Women in the Telegraph Office, 1846-1950

by Thomas C. Jepsen

Book Overview

The role of the telegraph operator in the mid-nineteenth century was like that of today's software programmer/analyst, according to independent scholar Tom Jepsen, who notes that in the "cyberspace" of long ago, male operators were often surprised to learn that the "first-class man" on the other end of the wire was a woman.

Like the computer, the telegraph caused a technological revolution. The telegraph soon worked synergistically with the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821413449
• ISBN13: 9780821413449
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"