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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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an altar here,select our best animals for sacrifice toyou, in hopes that we can alter youropinion of us, so that you will changeyour mind. Meanwhile, the third man was hurryingoff down the road. Destiny asked, Whereare you going? This was a Man of Rea-son who answered, I had better get downto the village as rapidly as possible, be-cause I want to round up all those who know something about living underwater.* During this period of automation andcomputers which coincides with the ex-pectation of continual rise in the level ofliving by all people, were all going tohave to live under water for some time.We in the telephone business, as well asin our nation and the world, are going torequire such Men of Reason in increas-ing numbers. *Based on a passage in Captain Newman, M.D.,by Leo Rosten, published by Harper and Row,Publishers, Inc. Note: This article has been adapted froma talk given by Mr. Boettinger be-fore the Bell System Public Rela-tions Vice Presidents Conference,October, 1963.
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What specific features will custonners want most in a service that providesa new dimension in telephoning — the use of sight as well as sound?Worlds Fair visitors are helping Bell Laboratories engineers to find out Developing PICTUREPHONE service ;f^. -** * ^^ ™ <z^ ^y^^^^^ ^mA / ^m^ iriii^^K^ ^jmssfsr- ■ —----. ^^■V Arthur D. Hall, Head, Television Engineering Department, Bell Telephone Laboratories ■ Imagine, if you will, a service whichpermits you to have a face-to-faceconversation with a person who may bemany miles away—a telephone conversa-tion in which you can see every expressionof the distant person. Think for a momentwhat this might mean in terms of a reun-ion with a friend or relative in a farawaycity. Consider the advantage of being ableto show or be shown an object difficult todescribe in words and consider, too, thepossibility of a person with a hearing de-fect being able to read the lips of the per-son at the other end of the line. These are just a few o

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