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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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ies ac-quired over one million copies of thePractices. Bell System Practices are, obvi-ously, an integral part of telephone 88 Bell Telephone Magazine SUMMER operations. They are as Importantworking tools as any the operatingforces use. Thus, they play an Im-portant part In providing the publicwith the best and the most telephoneservice at the lowest possible cost. The preparation of such Informa-tion * has been one of the majorfunctions of the Bell System head-quarters organization for almostthree-quarters of a century. Dur-ing that time, these Instructions havegrown from a few circular lettersto a library of over 9,000 separatepamphlets or sections. Many timesIt has been necessary to call on theOperating Companies for assistance * While the discussion here is limited to BellSystem Practices, information of many othertypes is issued by the General Departments ofthe A. T. & T. Company as part of the con-stant process of furnishing advice and assist-ance to the Operating Companies.
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The book-case contains about a third of thepresent active sections of Bell System Prac-tices. They are kept in binders for con-venient use In their preparation, and now thesituation has arisen again. TheCompanies have responded with thelargest group of Practice writersIn history, organized since the mid-dle of last year In the separate estab-lishment already referred to. In preparing Practices, thosewriters are following a plan estab-lished over 20 years ago. Lets takea look at some of the developmentswhich resulted In the creation of theBell System Practices Plan, theevents leading up to the organizationof the present special writing group,and also a brief look at a typlclalwriters job. Early Forms of ^*Practices In 1879, The National Bell Tele-phone Company was already estab-lished, with headquarters at 95 MilkStreet In Boston. W. H. Forbeswas president, Alexander GrahamBell was electrician, Theodore N.Vail, general manager, and ThomasA. Watson, general superintendent. There were ap

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