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Who was the world's first female telephone operator?

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Question added by Samar Saleh , Community Manager , Bayt.com
Date Posted: 2013/06/20
Naveed Ahmed
by Naveed Ahmed , Teacher , Teaching

Emma Mills Nutt was the first female operator. She started working in Boston Telephone Dispatch Company, USA on 1st September, 1878.

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I'm sure there could have been another person before but the one I heard of what Nutt, I think Amy or Emma Nutt.

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