Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1895 — The Telegrapher's Ear. [ARTICLE]

The Telegrapher's Ear.

St. t>ouis Post-Dispatch. The sense of hearing is developed in the modern telegraph operator to an abnormal degree owing to hisupe if the typewriter in his work. In former years, when he copied his messages with [ten or pencil, his pars were accustomed to only one kind of sound —that of the telegraph instrument—whilo ip these days of the typewriter ho must distinguish bet ween the sharp click of the ticker and the almost similar rattle of ths copying machine. According to an old operator, the sense of hearing soon becomes so developed that the distinction is easily made. With a little experience in the use of tho typewriter along with the telegraph instrument' the operator ceases to notice any similarity of the sounds.