McNutt, Emma

The first female telephone operator, Emma McNutt was hired by New England Bell

in Boston, Massachusetts, and began work on September 1, 1878. Previously, all operators had been young men who reportedly were given to lightening the tedium of their work by roughhousing, shouting at each other, and swearing at the customers.Young ladies of the time were brought up to be gracious, diffident, prim, proper, virtuous, and never profane. The Bell System also required them to be single. ( Note: New

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• content blocking
• continuity algorithm
• continuously variable slope delta modulation (CVSDM)
• continuously variable slope delta modulation (CVSDM)
• continuous redial
• continuous redial
• contraction
• Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM Act)
• control plane
• control unit
• conventional band (C-Band)
• convergence
• Convergence Sublayer (CS)
• converter box
• .coop (cooperative)
• coordinated dialing plan
• copper (Cu)
• Copper Distributed Data Interface (CDDI)
• copyright (©)
• cordboard
• cordless telephone
• Cordless Telephony generation 0 (CT0)
• Cordless Telephony generation 1 (CT1)
• Cordless Telephony generation 1 plus (CT1+)
• Cordless Telephony generation 2 (CT2)