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ELECTRICIAN, TELEPHONE

Specialty Definition: ELECTRICIAN, TELEPHONE

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Installs, tests, and repairs communication equipment, such as public address and intercommunication systems, wired burglar alarms, switchboards, telegraphs, telephones, and related apparatus, including coin collectors, telephone booths, and switching keys, using schematic diagrams, testing devices, and handtools: Installs equipment according to layout plans and connects units with inside and outside service wires. Maintains equipment and analyzes operational malfunctioning with testing devices, such as oscilloscopes, generators, meters, and electric bridges, to locate and diagnose nature of defect and ascertain repairs to be made. Examines mechanism and disassembles components to replace, clean, adjust or repair parts, wires, switches, relays, circuits, or signaling units, using handtools. Operates and tests equipment to ensure elimination of malfunction. May climb poles to install or repair outside service lines. May repair cables, lay out plans for new equipment, and estimate material required. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ELECTRICIAN, TELEPHONE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 4C 45 43 54 52 49 43 49 41 4E 2C      54 45 4C 45 50 48 4F 4E 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01001100 01000101 01000011 01010100 01010010 01001001 01000011 01001001 01000001 01001110 00101100 00100000 01010100 01000101 01001100 01000101 01010000 01001000 01001111 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#76 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#67 &#73 &#65 &#78 &#44 &#32 &#84 &#69 &#76 &#69 &#80 &#72 &#79 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004C 0045 0043 0054 0052 0049 0043 0049 0041 004E 002C      0054 0045 004C 0045 0050 0048 004F 004E 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3946393754524337433548142543946395042494839

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