Kennedy, Bart part 4. Interview on the use of telegraph artifacts and cable operations.

• Main Author: Wilson, Lisa
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Work; Telegraphs; Kennedy; Bart; Newfoundland; morse
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/4712

Discussion of telegraph artifacts; Printer tape feed; Landline telegraph receiver which receives the dots and dashes over line (the artifact that he has); Learning the morse alphabet; Telex tape was morse code; Studied to become wireless operator in 1958; QRT = What time is it?; Headphones were used to take out outer noise; Writing out morse code and how wireless worked; When cables get broken; No ID cards for W.U. employees; Shift in gender in workplaces; Daily operating logs; Where the different cables went; Fishing trawlers damaging cables; Cable and insulation; Feat of engineering to bring cable across; Discussing Hambling photos; How the message traveled; Art of telegraph; Skill of operators; Writing called copper plate; Ink stamp from Newfoundland Railway; Use of typewriter; Amplification of radio wave; Ches Smith photograph; Dating and discussing photographs; Archive photo in Heart’s Content; Possible use of felt; “Ticker tape” artifact-- message written out on type paper; Microphones not used; Speed of sending messages; Wartime on Cable Ave.; Playing tennis; Flattening grass; Photographs: 1926 installation of fastest cable in the world; Story of interview for Western Union.