<html><body><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Done--and in record time. Thx JDF</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Thomas Haigh" <thaigh@computer.org><br><b>To: </b>"Evan Koblentz" <evan@snarc.net>, "JD Fleming" <jfleming@sfu.ca>, "members" <members@sigcis.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, 17 March, 2016 16:43:19<br><b>Subject: </b>RE: [SIGCIS-Members] Gleick "sounder"<br><div><br></div><style><!--
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto" data-mce-style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt" data-mce-style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Evan’s suggestion does seem the most plausible of the senses offered by the OED. Definition n2 is below. n1 is to do with wild swine, while n3 is to do with sounding depths of water.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto" data-mce-style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt" data-mce-style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Tom<b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto" data-mce-style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt" data-mce-style="font-size: 13.5pt;">1. One who makes or utters a sound or sounds; one who causes something, esp. an instrument, to sound.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">1591 R. Percyvall <i><a href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)" target="_blank" data-mce-href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)">Bibliotheca Hispanica</a></i> Dict. at <i>Tañedor</i>, A plaier or sounder of any instrument, <i>cantor</i>.</p><p class="MsoNormal">1648 H. Hexham <i><a href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)" target="_blank" data-mce-href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)">Groot Woorden-boeck</a></i> <i>Een Luyder</i>, a Ringer, a Sounder.</p><p class="MsoNormal">1809 ‘D. Knickerbocker’ <i><a href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)" target="_blank" data-mce-href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)">Hist. N.Y.</a></i> II. vi. iii. 100 The illustrious sun..did dart one of his most potent beams..upon the refulgent nose of this sounder of brass.</p><p class="MsoNormal">1831 Scott <i>Count Robert</i> ii, in <i><a href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)" target="_blank" data-mce-href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)">Tales of my Landlord</a></i> 4th Ser. II. 14 In the front..stood the sounder of the sacred trumpet.</p><p class="MsoNormal">1859 Dickens <i><a href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)" target="_blank" data-mce-href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)">Tale of Two Cities</a></i> ii. i. 34 The sounders of three-fourths of the notes in the whole gamut of Crime, were put to Death.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto" data-mce-style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">1591—1859<a href="http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/view/Entry/185142?rskey=R48yRU&result=2&isAdvanced=false" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/view/Entry/185142?rskey=R48yRU&result=2&isAdvanced=false">(Hide quotations)</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> <b>2.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto" data-mce-style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt" data-mce-style="font-size: 13.5pt;">a. A telegraphic device which enables the communications or signals to be read by sound.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">1860 G. B. Prescott <i><a href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)" target="_blank" data-mce-href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)">Electr. Telegr.</a></i> 91 Since the adoption of the method of reading by sound, another apparatus has taken the place of the register, or recording apparatus, called the <i>sounder</i>.</p><p class="MsoNormal">1872 F. L. Pope <i><a href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)" target="_blank" data-mce-href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)">Telegraph</a></i> iv. 32 The Sounder consists simply of the electro-magnet, armature and lever fixed upon a base.</p><p class="MsoNormal">1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright <i><a href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)" target="_blank" data-mce-href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)">Telegraphy</a></i> 246 The Sounder, on account of the extreme simplicity of its mechanism, is less liable to faults than any of the other forms of instruments which are employed.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>attrib.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal">1875 E. H. Knight <i><a href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)" target="_blank" data-mce-href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)">Pract. Dict. Mech.</a></i> 2247/2 <i>Sounder-magnet</i>, the magnet which operates the sounder in the receiving apparatus.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto" data-mce-style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">1860—1876<a href="http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/view/Entry/185142?rskey=R48yRU&result=2&isAdvanced=false" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/view/Entry/185142?rskey=R48yRU&result=2&isAdvanced=false">(Hide quotations)</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto" data-mce-style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt" data-mce-style="font-size: 13.5pt;">b. A telegraphist who operates or has experience with this.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">1887 <i><a href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)" target="_blank" data-mce-href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)">Daily News</a></i> 2 May 7/3 Telegraphist (sounder) desires engagement.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto" data-mce-style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">1887—1887<a href="http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/view/Entry/185142?rskey=R48yRU&result=2&isAdvanced=false" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/view/Entry/185142?rskey=R48yRU&result=2&isAdvanced=false">(Hide quotations)</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto" data-mce-style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt" data-mce-style="font-size: 13.5pt;">3. A device or instrument which gives a signal, etc., by sounding; also, the signal so given.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>a</i>1884 E. H. Knight <i><a href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)" target="_blank" data-mce-href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)">Pract. Dict. Mech.</a></i> Suppl. 832/1 <i>Sounder</i>, an alarm or call, made by closing an electric circuit.</p><p class="MsoNormal">1891 <i><a href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)" target="_blank" data-mce-href="JAVASCRIPT-BLOCKEDvoid(0)">Pall Mall Gaz.</a></i> 1 June 7/1 An electric sounder, too, is so arranged that it commences to ring if everything is correct, directly the gun is loaded and in the firing position.<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" data-mce-style="border: none; border-top: solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt; padding: 3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Evan Koblentz<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 17, 2016 6:37 PM<br><b>To:</b> JD Fleming <jfleming@sfu.ca>; members <members@sigcis.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Gleick "sounder"</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">>> One is reported as saying: "If I want to send a message, I use a sounder, or employ a boy to take it" (p.189). My question is: What, in this context, is or was a "sounder"<br></p><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal">Telegraph.<br></p><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_sounder" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_sounder">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_sounder</a></p></div></div><div><br><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><span name="x"></span><div><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">J</span><span face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" data-mce-style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;" style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;">ames Dougal Fleming<br>Associate Professor<br>Department of English<br>Simon Fraser University</span></div><div>778-782-4713</div><div><span size="1" data-mce-style="font-size: xx-small;" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br></span><div><span><span face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" data-mce-style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;" style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;">Burnaby -- </span></span>British Columbia -- Canada.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-size: small;">"You will be careful to keep them separate, citizen?"</span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-size: small;">--<em>A Tale of Two Cities</em></span></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; font-family: Times; color: #202020; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #202020; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; font-family: Times; color: #202020; -webkit-text-stroke-color: #202020; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> <span style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></span></span></p><div><br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><em><span face="tahoma, new york, times, serif" style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;"><br></span></em></span></div></div></div><span name="x"></span><br></div></div></body></html>