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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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hwas unbroken, the cable would giveno trouble; but when they were not,there was plenty of work for the out-side maintenance and testroom peo-ple. Almost any not-so-old-timercould tell stories of drowned cables.For instance— Some years ago, a group of cablesplicers had just finished cutting overopen wires into a brand-new toll en-trance cable. It was a raw day withhigh wind, and by late afternoon ablizzard had set in. The men whohad been working on the poles were still thawing out frozen fingers whenthe report came from the testroomthat one of the circuits which hadbeen cut over had failed. While theywere looking for trouble at the termi-nals, another circuit went out, andfrom then on it was a succession oftrouble reports. Measurements located the troublenear a river crossing. There wasnothing for the splicers to do butspend most of the night back-track-ing on their job, cutting the wiresback to the old open-wire line. The next day they dug down to thecable beside the river crossing.
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The pipe at the left of the pole, nungjroma gas-filled buried cable, permits testijig ofboth the gas pressure and the contactoralarm at this point, and also enables thecableman to talk with the test board i68 Bell Telephone Magazine AUTUMN There was a hole in it, covered witha clumsy wooden clamp. Investiga-tion showed that some workman, dig-ging a ditch, had struck the cablewith his pick a number of days be-fore, and instead of reporting it, hehad covered the hole with the clamp.The storm on the day of the cutoverhad raised the water level until itreached the cable. Gas pressurewould have kept the water out of thecable and given warning of the break,so that it could have been repairedbefore the cutover was made. On another occasion a cable in aduct underneath a bridge failed whena flood submerged the duct. When the water receded, a large hole wasfound in the cable sheath, evidentlycaused by lightning. As the cluct wasnormally dry, it is not improbablethat the cable had lain in this c

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