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Identifier: bellvol25telephonemag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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, the Coast Guard has acommunications network which bindsall activities and units of the serviceinto an eflicient workable peacetimeorganization; yet it is so constitutedthat in time of national emergency itis readily integrated with the commu-nications system of the Navy. The Communications Network The Lifesaving Service (a majorcomponent of the present CoastGuard) made use of the telephone in1878—the very first year in whichtelephone service was offered throughcommercial exchanges. The ArmySignal Corps had run telegraph linesalong stretches of the Atlantic Coastfor its Storm Signal Service, andthese had been connected with thelifesaving stations in 1876; and twoyears later telephones were placed onthe telegraph line between CapeHenry and Kitty Hawk, so that thecrews and equipment of the 12 life-saving stations along this stretch ofcoast might be quickly summoned tomeet a need. This was the first use of the tele-phone anywhere in the world as anintegral feature of a lifesaving sys-
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A wartime class in radio training 1946-47 The Coast Guard operates Through Communications 211 tern, and it proved so effective thatit was rapidly extended. Within thenext decade the Signal Corps hadinterconnected 19 lifesaving stationson the New Jersey shore, nearly thatmany on the coast of North Carolina,all the stations between Cape Hen-lopen and Cape Charles, and severalstations in the Great Lakes region.Then the newly organized WeatherBureau took over the telegraph fea-ture of the storm warning servicefrom the Signal Corps, and the Life-saving Service absorbed the tele-phone lines. While the telephone had thusdemonstrated its value in linking thelifesaving stations along isolatedstretches of coastline, it got its realstart, as a system, with the programcompleted in 1918. This involvedthe expenditure of $1,200,000, whichhad been recommended by the Inter-departmental Board of Coastal Com-munications. This Board had beenestablished by Executive Order in1916 for the purpose of conside

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