Telephone
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- partly came to be because learning morse code is difficult so the telegraph was hard to use
- before the common definition of a telephone anything that could transmit sound not nessisarly through an electrical way
- telephone exchanges started out hiring men and boys but found they where invasive and rude
- so they started employing women instead
- sexism in Technology
- women where not telegraph operators because it was believed that morse code was too complex to teach women it
- "I would like to say right here... what our experience has been with young ladies' help; the service is very much superior to that of boys and men. They are steadier, do not drink beer and are always on hand". - Alexander Graham Bell
- there where major anti-trust, monopolistic affiars that led to the modern phone network
- the cost to subscribe to a phone service in 1890 was around 10x higher than it was in europe
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