telegraphist in English
noun
1
a person skilled or employed in telegraphy.
Skilled telegraphists had relayed Morse code messages along the line from Adelaide to Darwin and overseas, and vice versa.
noun
telegraphertelegraph operator
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1. This was because of the zealous activity of an Anglo-Indian, Frank Barrett, a telegraphist with the Indian telegraphs department, who continued active in the Lord’s service till his death and spent many hours preaching in what is now West Pakistan.
2. That such a binary alphabet is adequate to write any message is obvious from the fact that a telegraphist uses precisely such a binary alphabet in transmitting any communication whatsoever via the Morse code with its repertoire of only two symbolsa dash ( 0 ) and a dot ( 1 ) .