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Marconi operators - Help settle a... discussion... | #1 |
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Does anyone out there know what (A noise of some kind presumably) a Marconi operator would have had to alert him to an incoming call? Surely they didn't have to sit there with their headphones on ready to take down a message the second it started?
I reckon it would have been a bell like they have in the cowboy movies, but my sister said they had direct line support. A radio transmission would have needed a separate signal to sound a bell, and my brother in law thinks they just sat there with the 'phones on...
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