Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another call and another, repeating to sleepy storekeepers and clerks and villagers what the voice had said: "The Reservoir has broken. A flood is coming." Before she got to H in the directory the flood was up to her knees; when she got through Z the switchboard was swamped, the walls were crumbling. She had her husband splice the toll line to a phone in the wall, talked to El Paso-"Send us help." Then the ceiling fell...
...automatic seems the only relief for telephone congestion in the great cities. Subscribers dial their wanted numbers. Automatically connection is made, if the called number is also an automatic. Otherwise the caller dials for a "manual" operator who plugs in on her switchboard. Changing over from "manual" to automatic service involves millions of intricacies, intricacies whch the Bell field forces handle with scarcely a pause or inconvenience to users...
Despatches asserted that a switchboard-operator serves all the de luxe sleeping compartments. She establishes the actual connection with other trains or with stations through a "wired-wireless" telephone instrument of allegedly new and secret construction. Telephone engineers noted that "train wireless" has been possible as a stunt for a decade or more. They learned with interest that the new German invention is said to have leaped into "paying popularity...
...switchboard operator in Randolph Hall reports that over 100 calls from that dormitory have been put in for Porter 1367. It has been suggested that perhaps the Levinsky combination is in league with the telephone company...