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I liked the parts of Schmitt's memoir that focused on her friends. Her friends were so weirded out by the idea of someone working for the telephone industry. I particularly liked the part where the friend thought she must hear "such horrible things" over the phone. I empathize with that. It's weird to think of an operator having the ability to listen in to all the calls. -- Matt Struth | I liked the parts of Schmitt's memoir that focused on her friends. Her friends were so weirded out by the idea of someone working for the telephone industry. I particularly liked the part where the friend thought she must hear "such horrible things" over the phone. I empathize with that. It's weird to think of an operator having the ability to listen in to all the calls. -- Matt Struth | ||
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| + | Katherine Schmitt article, "Memoir of a Telephone Operator," was a eye opening read. I would have never guess an invention to change society, who be looked as an "impractical toy." As Katherine explains, what seems like a toy at first grows to something bigger in the long run. Even though it was costly investment to have a telephone, I think that the way it grew it is remarkable. Just a few years go by and more and more people are getting into the use of the telephone. At first it started off with a few hundred subscriber who knew each other on a "friend" basis, but later on they had a hard time keeping up with the accelerated amount of people subscribing. One thing I don't understand is, why would they use boys to become operators when they all knew that they boys are still growing and that they have not matured fully. What would make someone think that it would be ok to put a bunch of boys in a room to do some actual hard work? -- Paul Kim | ||
== Ronell on Thomas Watson == | == Ronell on Thomas Watson == | ||
