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Telegraphists
A telegraphist (BrE, British English), telegrapher (AmE, American English), or telegraph operator is a person who uses a telegraph key to send and receive Morse code messages in a telegraphy system. These messages, also called telegrams, can be transmitted Electrical telegraph, electronically by land lines, or Wireless telegraphy, wirelessly by radio. History During the Great War, First World War, the Royal Navy enlisted many volunteers as radio telegraphists. Telegraphists were indispensable at sea in the early days of wireless telegraphy, and many young men were called to sea as professional radiotelegraph operators who were always accorded high-paying officer status at sea. Subsequent to the Sinking of the RMS Titanic, ''Titanic'' disaster and the Radio Act of 1912, the International Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS Convention, SOLAS) conventions established the 500kHz maritime distress frequency monitoring and mandated that all passenger-carrying ships carry licensed radio teleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Cottam
Harold Thomas Cottam (27 January 1891 – 30 May 1984) was a British Wireless telegraphy, wireless operator on the RMS Carpathia, RMS ''Carpathia'' who fortuitously happened to receive the distress call from the sinking RMS Titanic, RMS ''Titanic'' on 15 April 1912. Cottam's decision to awaken Captain (nautical), Captain Arthur Rostron, Arthur Henry Rostron and relay ''Titanic''s message in spite of the scepticism of the officer on watch allowed ''Carpathia'' to arrive at the scene hours before any other ship and is "credited with saving hundreds of lives." He was a personal friend of the ''Titanic'''s wireless operators Harold Bride and Jack Phillips (wireless operator), Jack Phillips. Early life and career Cottam was born on 27 January 1891 in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, to William Cottam and his wife Jane. He had four younger brothers. At 17, Cottam left home to study eleven months at the British College of Telegraphy in London, becoming the school's youngest graduate in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Margaret Dunkley
Louisa Margaret Dunkley (28 May 1866 – 10 March 1927) was an Australian telegraphist and labor organizer who successfully campaigned for the right for women to obtain equal pay for equal work in the Australian commonwealth public service. Early life and education Louisa Margaret Dunkley was born in Richmond, Melbourne, Australia. She was the daughter of William James Dunkley, a boot importer, and Mary Ann Regan, both from London, England. She was educated at Catholic girls schools. Career Dunkley began to work for the Postmaster-General's Department in 1882. She studied telegraphy, passing the Public Service Examination on 11 June 1887 and went on to become an operator in 1888, working in the Melbourne metropolitan post and telegraph offices. In 1890 she qualified as a telegraphist and was promoted to a position in the Chief Telegraph Office. While working as a telegraphist in the early 1890s, she became aware of the unequal pay and working conditions of the female oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Phillips (wireless Operator)
John George "Jack" Phillips (11 April 1887 – 15 April 1912) was a British sailor and the senior wireless operator aboard the ''Titanic'' during her ill-fated maiden voyage in April 1912. Before the collision with the iceberg, Phillips and his assistant, Harold Bride, had acknowledged and passed along several ice warnings to the bridge. As the ship sank, Phillips did his utmost to contact other ships for assistance and coordinated a successful rescue effort with . He did not survive the sinking and his body, if recovered, was not identified. Early life Phillips was born on 11 April 1887 in Farncombe, Surrey. The son of George Alfred Phillips, a draper and Ann Phillips (née Sanders), Phillips' family originally came from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, from a lineage of weavers, but moved to Farncombe around 1883. Phillips lived with his five siblings, of whom only two twin sisters survived to adulthood, above a draper's shop – Gammons – which his father managed in Farncombe Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seeb Chunder Nandy
Seebchunder Nandy or Sib Chandra Nundy (June 1824 – 6 April 1903) was an Indian Bengali telegraphy official who worked on the first telegraph lines established in British India. He helped install and maintain the first telegraph lines between Agra and Calcutta using innovative approaches to reduce the cost of installation. Born in a family of modest means in Calcutta, he worked at the refinery of the Calcutta Mint from 1846 under William Brooke O'Shaughnessy. When O'Shaughnessy started working on the first telegraphic line in India, he made use of Nandy as his assistant. Nandy tested the first line signalling from Diamond Harbour to O'Shaughnessy in Calcutta in a demonstration made to Lord Dalhousie. Nandy later became a line inspector in charge of training signallers. In 1866 he became an assistant superintendent and just before retiring the next year he was given the title of Rai Bahadur on 28 February 1883. Among Nandy's achievements was in the low-cost installation of lines. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Macaulay
Mary Macaulay (January 27, 1865 – July 19, 1944) was a telegraph operator and labor union official who became International Vice President of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America (CTUA) in 1919. She was the first woman telegrapher to hold a national elective office in a union. Involvement with telegraphers' unions and the suffrage movement In about 1880, she began work as a commercial operator for Western Union. She joined the telegraphers' union, the Brotherhood of Telegraphers, which was affiliated with the Knights of Labor. She joined in their strike against Western Union in 1883. When the strike ended unsuccessfully, she left Western Union and began work as a press operator in Amsterdam, New York, where she sent and received press dispatches. This was the beginning of a long career as a press telegrapher; she subsequently operated for the ''Rochester Post Express'' in Rochester, New York, the Consolidated wire at the ''Buffalo Evening News'' in Buffalo, New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
