Sunday, September 1, 2024

1 September 24

On 1 September 1878: the first telephone operator, Emma Nutt, ushered in the era where women would dominate the job. She worked for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston. Alexander Bell suggested replacing the boys operating the phone lines with a calm, soothing female voice. On my tie, Charlie Brown and his friends are having a party conversation!

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