A diminishing number were railroad telegraphers long ago. Most of the rest are amateur (ham) radio operators who learned code for their hobby and were drawn to original land-line telegraphy.

Telegrams may seem old hat, but you can still send them in the modern day. But why would you want to send one in place of an ...

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(1940-1941) In the 1940s, Ron was a railroad rules instructor at the Gale Institute, Minneapolis. The institute taught telegraphy and railroad rules to young railroaders, and Bill says Ron "was ...

The rails of the Lackawanna railroad system between Scranton and ... Within a short time, the use of wireless telegraphy expanded as Sarnoff later formed the Radio Corporation of America ...

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