Here, so far beneath the earth as to be safe from even the largest shells, was the telephone-room, the nerve-centre of the whole complicated system of defense, with a switchboard larger than those in the "central office" of many an American city.
"Italy at War and the Allies in the West"
E. Alexander Powell
Barby, who served when necessary as the island's switchboard operator, ran to answer.
"The Electronic Mind Reader"
John Blaine
Call the girl on my switchboard and tell her to answer any other news-service calls.
"Time Crime"
H. Beam Piper