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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (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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as appraisalsand depreciation studies, are also animportant part of the engineers job.This engineering work must be di-rected and performed forthe most part by peoplewith engineering trainingand experience. At theend of 1951, some 12,-000 of these people wereemployed on this work invarious Departments ofthe Operating Compa-nies, and their salariesand other costs added upto over 100 million dol-lars In that year. Theywork with and keep In-formed of the work ofengineers in other organ-izations: the Operationand Engineering Depart- 1952 Engineering Bell Telephone Plant 179 ment of the AmericanTelephone and Tele-graph Company, for in-stance; the Bell Tele-phone Laboratories,where development andresearch work is done;the Engineering Depart-ment of the WesternElectric Company, wheremanufacturing standardsare established and equip-ment specifications are The vast expansion in toll plant has been accompanied byprepared; and engineers ^ notable increase in the speed of service and improvement
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■50 ,♦ 50 of many companies whoseprimary interest is not inthe telephone business. Among theselast are railroad companies, powercompanies, gas and water companies,municipal, state and federal engineer-ing organizations, and others. Theengineering problems encountered are,obviously, extensive and varied. Basic Planning Long-range studies and basic plan-ning precede the engineering of spe-cific projects. In small scale operations or smallorganizations, it frequently happensthat specific engineering work is car-ried out without a formal master tn transyntssion with no blueprints or specifications oreven a street plan of the neighbor-hood. Nevertheless, such an under-taking, to be successful in the longrun, takes a lot of planning. In dealing with larger undertak-ings, such as the locations of tele-phone central oflices, routes and typeof facilities to be used for toll lines,operating methods involving opera-tor and customer dialing of toll calls,or provision for new kinds of serv-ice

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