Ralph Knudsen- Final Splice
By Steve Cichorsky, ; posted January 29, 2009; hits 2508
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| Ralph Knudsen born March 10, 1890, died July 1975. He was a Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company pioneer, having started working for them in their Berkeley office in 1913 for wages of $2.55 a day "plus beans.” He was the person who made the final splice in the first transcontinental telephone line on June 17, 1914 at Wendover, Utah. |