Switchboard Operator

 

Matt and Helen discuss a time when phones didn't have dials and making a call required talking to a switchboard operator. Sarah Autumn from the Connections Museum in Seattle helps them connect to this Jobsolete profession and they listen in to what it took to make a long distance phone call in the 1940s.

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