While attending Los Angeles City College in the 1960s, Lilith needed to find a part-time job. So, she applied for a position at Pacific Telephone Telegraph to work as an information operator. In the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The job wasn’t much like Lily Tomlin’s switchboard skit on “Laugh-In” in the ...

The operator is going off the hook for millions of customers. Starting in January, AT&T customers with digital landlines won’t be able to dial 411 or 0 to reach an operator or get directory assistance ...

Before cellphones, before dial-up, if you wanted to make a phone call, you talked to an operator. That operator sat in front of a wall covered in... Jun 19, 2017 — Before cellphones, before dial-up, ...

On March 19, 1918, Miss Hortense Levy of Philadelphia received a telegraph instructing her to report for training in telephony, also known as telephone operation. According to historian Rebecca ...

Alexander Graham Bell is probably most famous for a little invention known as the telephone. In fact, he made the first-ever two-way long distance telephone call between Boston and Cambridge. But Bell ...

Thirteen telephone operators--hired to handle collect calls from Mexico--have won a record $709,284 judgment against a Dallas-area company that fired them for refusing to abide by an English-only ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract American telephone companies of the early twentieth century strictly trained their female operators to become domestic machines serving the ...

When someone calls 911, the time it takes for paramedics to arrive can be the difference between life and death. Minnesota lawmaker Julie Sandstede knows this. She represents a rural area, where ...