Operators could perform duties such as stenographer, typewriter, telegrapher and bookkeeper. He joined as chief telegrapher in Western Union telegraph company's New York office at Manhattan. Strindberg, something of a polymath, was also a telegrapher, theosophist, painter, photographer and alchemist. He worked as a laborer, photographer and telegrapher. He was a telegrapher, electrical engineer, explorer, inventor, and patent attorney. Prior to entering politics, Benjamin worked variously as a railway station agent, telegrapher and secretary. Besides preparing waybills, Alice Matty was the telegrapher and the ticket agent. By 1906, Lane was working as a telegrapher at the Midland Hotel in Kansas City. A D&RG telegrapher warns Palmer, who rallies his men to fight McCabe's. Thus, a telegrapher can effectively "remember" several dozen dits and dahs as a single phrase. Thomas H. Ince-directed Western short "The Post Telegrapher". Her wish comes true when she begins to work as a telegrapher, too. He was engaged as a telegrapher and as manager of a news bureau. In 1912, after passing the civil service exam, he was hired as a government telegrapher. During World War II he served as a telegrapher in the Royal Navy.