Telephone talk has been a central communication practice and site of study since Shannon and Weaver developed their fundamental model of communication at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1940s to explain how technological and human channels of communication transmit information. As telephone service spread and ushered in the information age in the latter half of
Telephone and private branch exchange (PBX) installers and repairers install, service, and repair telephone and PBX systems in customers’ homes and places of business. In 1876, the first practical device for transmitting speech over electric wires was patented by Alexander Graham Bell. The telephone device Bell invented functioned on essentially the same principle as the
Telephone operators help people using phone company services, as well as other telephone operators, to place calls and to make connections. There are approximately 213,000 switchboard operators, 29,000 telephone operators, and 4,200 other communications equipment operators employed in the United States. History of Telephone Operator Career In the years since Alexander Graham Bell was granted