Women of the Wires - The Operators History Almost Missed The telegraph was the first electrical profession to open its door to women at scale. Their sending filled the wires for a century - and in 1918 some of them went to war. At the key from the start Telegraph companies hired women from the industry's early decades, valuing accuracy and speed. By the century's end, thousands of women worked the circuits - and the sounder, which revealed skill but not identity, made their excellence undeniable. The Hello Girls America's first women soldiers under orders to the front were telephone operators: bilingual 'Hello Girls' of the Signal Corps who kept the American Expeditionary Forces connected in France. Their switchboards were the command network - the wires, once again, carried everything. Translate any text to Morse code, play it as sound and download the audio free at: https://morsecodeworks.com/