Reviews for My Sisters Telegraphic: Women in the Telegraph Office, 1846-1950

The average rating for My Sisters Telegraphic: Women in the Telegraph Office, 1846-1950 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-17 00:00:00 Mauro Andres A very informative and useful read on an almost non-existent history of women in telegraphy. It mostly centers around the Morse code telegraph operators of the late-1800s, but it does have a general sense of what it was like for women telegraphers to be out in the public sphere (instead of the private). There is not much information about after the 1920s other than the invention of teletype and its replacement of the Morse transmitters. I especially liked the analysis of many different aspects of women telegraphers which would not have occurred to me (i.e. social life, demography, race).

Review # 2 was written on 2010-06-30 00:00:00 Janine Huxford I'm currently reading this for a college class. I really didn't think this topic has any relevance at all anymore, but I was wrong. I'm surprised by how closely it parallels technology today.