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One thing I noticed was that as the technology became more and more complicated, so did the coorespdonding operating jobs. Virginia Penny describes a job as telegraph operator in which it seems only patience and politeness is necessary. However in the clippings from the telephone review, it says "the standard of eligibility must be high" and goes on to mention that the person must be much above the average young woman, excluding those that are mentally or physically unfit. After the invention of the telephone, it seems being an operator became more scientific and tool more skill. -Karen Siegmund | One thing I noticed was that as the technology became more and more complicated, so did the coorespdonding operating jobs. Virginia Penny describes a job as telegraph operator in which it seems only patience and politeness is necessary. However in the clippings from the telephone review, it says "the standard of eligibility must be high" and goes on to mention that the person must be much above the average young woman, excluding those that are mentally or physically unfit. After the invention of the telephone, it seems being an operator became more scientific and tool more skill. -Karen Siegmund | ||
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| + | In Katherine Schmitt's memoir, she describes on pg. 237 what I believed to be the most surprising piece of information introduced in this piece. According to Schmitt, women were left unsupervised in the workplace. Now, considering the time period we are referring to, which corresponds with the rise of industrialization and big business, I think this spoke a great deal about how valued the telephone industry was at the time. This seems to be the most credible evidence supporting her description of telephones as purely 'toys'. - Adam Shlossman | ||
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