Marie Scott vividly recalls the horrifying sounds of D-Day as she relayed orders down the line to the troops storming the Normandy beaches. She was only 17 and one of nine women transmitting critical ...

Mike Lazer-Walker has repurposed a 1927 Western Electric 551-A switchboard into a hectic game that tasks players with quickly learning the obsolete job. “Hello, Operator!,” although controlled by a ...

These or similar words are used many times daily by an attractive brown eyed, brown haired young lady named Joan Cox who is a switchboard operator at Goodwill Industries of El Paso. What’s unusual ...

(Editor's note: Before dawn on March 9, 1916, the Mexican revolutionary leader, Pancho Villa raided the village of Columbus, New Mexico. Many businesses were burned and 18 U.S. citizens were killed.

Before smartphones, most people kept in touch using landline telephones. And before direct dialing was common, some calls were handled by switchboard operators. During the 1950s, more than 220,000 ...

On a recent Sunday, Rosa Blanchard was talking to her family at home when the telephone rang. "I picked it up and the first words I said were, 'Riverview Gardens School District. May I help you?'" ...

In Gretchen Berg’s debut novel, "The Operator," a gossip-hungry telephone switchboard operator in 1950s Ohio listens in on calls. William Morrow In Gretchen Berg’s debut novel, The Operator, Vivian ...