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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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Copper^ brass, lead, a)id even precious metals are recovered at Nassauthrough the refiyiing qualities of incandescent heat 264 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER is used. When a chem-ist affixes a loadedbeaker over a burner,he sets the timer.When the desired timehas elapsed, a bellrings. No guessworkhere. Every minutecounts. To save preci-ous time in handlinghot beakers, the labo-ratory uses containersmade of a special glasswhich can be raised toterrific heat and in-stantly cooled by wa-ter without shattering. No Interlude fro?n War to Peace In war and peace Nassau is jealous of time. With hardly the loss of a stride the Nassau plant changed over from tremendous war production to the mighty task of reclaiming scrap for whip up production of staple tele- the Bell System expansion program, phone raw materials like lead, solder, The 20-odd furnaces and dozens of copper wire bars, and ingots. The kettles and crucibles are still cooking output for the Bell System began to
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Reclamation and refining operations require careful laboratory analysis. Here a chemist tests a sample in Nassau^s laboratory 24 hours a day, often seven days aweek. The voracious demands of war cutdown the output for telephone use toa thin trickle. In 1944, Nassau sup-plied only 10 million pounds of re-born metal to the Bell System (asagainst 75 million pounds to foun-dries for war production) or about12 percent of the total output. Be-fore the war, Nassau had supplied anaverage of 50 to 60 percent of itstotal production to the System. As soon as victory was assured,Nassau began repairing, overhaul-ing, and reconverting furnaces to climb. At the end of the first twomonths of 1946, Nassau had supplied2,448,000 pounds of finished ma-terial for telephone manufacture, orabout 33 percent of its total output.At the end of the seventh month theoutput for Bell System account hadjumped to 47 percent: 19 millionpounds of processed metals out of atotal of 40,627,000. And week byweek production

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