{"id":37952,"date":"2019-05-26T07:46:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T11:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=37952"},"modified":"2019-05-26T07:46:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T11:46:25","slug":"lavina-shaw-history-of-a-canadian-railway-brass-pounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/lavina-shaw-history-of-a-canadian-railway-brass-pounder\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavina Shaw: History of a Canadian railway brass pounder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Brass-Pounder-Bug-Key.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37954\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Brass-Pounder-Bug-Key.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Brass-Pounder-Bug-Key.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Brass-Pounder-Bug-Key-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Brass-Pounder-Bug-Key-768x407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Brass-Pounder-Bug-Key-624x331.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Eric McFadden (WD8RIF) who shares the following post by James Wade (WB8SIW) <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.qrz.com\/index.php?threads\/a-biography-of-a-telegrapher.645042\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from the QRZ.com forums<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The CBC recently interviewed Lavina Shaw, Past International President of the Morse Telegraph Club. In this biographical documentary, Lavina talks about her experiences working as a railroad and commercial telegrapher as well as her experiences as a woman working in a man&#8217;s world. Like many telegraphers of her era, Lavina had a front-row seat to history.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to railroad and commercial operations (telegrams, cablegrams), the telegraph was widely used in a variety of applications such as stock brokerage operations, commodities and board of trade work, press operations, and so forth. Even the telephone company used Morse telegraphy extensively for its internal operations well into the post war era.<\/p>\n<p>Radio amateurs in general, and CW operators in particular, will undoubtedly find this video interesting, not just for the human interest content, but for its insights into the antecedents of radiotelegraphy.<\/p>\n<p>The Morse Telegraph Club is a non-profit historical and educational association dedicated to preserving the history and traditions of telegraphy and the telegraph industry. MTC members and chapters demonstrate telegraphy at historical events, design and construct historically correct museum exhibits and conduct presentations on the history of telegraphy. MTC also publishes an excellent quarterly journal entitled &#8220;Dots and Dashes, which includes articles on telegraph history and first-person accounts of telegraph industry employees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mJi7d7vHWVA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mJi7d7vHWVA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For more information on MTC membership, please contact James Wades (WB8SIW).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, Eric, for sharing this fascinating piece about Lavina Shaw!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Eric McFadden (WD8RIF) who shares the following post by James Wade (WB8SIW) from the QRZ.com forums: The CBC recently interviewed Lavina Shaw, Past International President of the Morse Telegraph Club. In this biographical documentary, Lavina talks about her experiences working as a railroad and commercial telegrapher as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,288],"tags":[2887,7790,88,500,4091],"class_list":["post-37952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","tag-eric-mcfadden","tag-lavina-shaw","tag-morse-code","tag-qrz","tag-radio-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9S8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39808,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/1921-ny-railroad-storm-could-have-surpassed-intensity-of-1859-carrington-event\/","url_meta":{"origin":37952,"position":0},"title":"1921 NY Railroad Storm could have surpassed intensity of 1859 Carrington Event","author":"Thomas","date":"September 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Southgate ARC via Eric McFadden) Scientific American magazine reports new data suggest the 1921 'New York Railroad Storm' could have surpassed the intensity of the famous Carrington Event of 1859 In a paper published in the journal Space Weather,\u00a0Jeffrey Love\u00a0of the U.S. Geological Survey and his colleagues reexamined the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Sun-Solar-Flare-CME-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Sun-Solar-Flare-CME-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Sun-Solar-Flare-CME-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Sun-Solar-Flare-CME-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":33959,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/atlas-obscura-features-kph-maritime-radio-receiving-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":37952,"position":1},"title":"Atlas Obscura features KPH Maritime Radio Receiving Station","author":"Thomas","date":"September 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Atlas Obscura via Eric McFadden) One of the most stunning sights of the Bay Area is the historic KPH Radio Station, also known as Marine Coast Station KPH. 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