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1. Vol 1 Antique Telegraph Keys & Brass-Pounders — Vol 1: The Keys of the Wire Before radio, the key lived on iron wire strung across a continent. The brass camelback, the steel-lever key that replaced it, and the closed loop that every one of them lived in — the ancestors of every ham key that followed.
2. Vol 2 Antique Telegraph Keys & Brass-Pounders — Vol 2: The Brass Pounders The keys were only half of it. The other half was a profession of fast hands and faster ears — tramp telegraphers, women operators, railroad dispatchers, and a young Thomas Edison — who read lightning off a wire for a living.