Telegraphist
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A telegraphist (
American English), or telegraph operator is an operator who uses a telegraph key to send and receive the Morse code in order to communicate by land lines or radio
.
During the
500kHz maritime distress frequency monitoring and mandated that all passenger-carrying ships carry licensed radio telegraph operators.[1]
In popular culture
- The telegraphist mouse in Australia and the Marshall Islands from The Rescuers Down Under.
See also
- Amateur radio
- Casa del Telegrafista (House of the Telegrapher), a museum in Colombia
- Commercial Cable Company
- List of telegraphists
- Morse code
- Prosigns for Morse code
- Telegraph key
- Operator fist
- Transatlantic telegraph cable
- Sinking of the RMS Titanic
References
- ^ International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1948, London, 10th June, 1948 (PDF), London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, January 1953, p. 169, archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2015, retrieved 26 January 2018
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