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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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also participated in a simi-lar study five years ago. The 1962 re-sults demonstrated that the Britishhave more chronic bronchitis but thatAmericans were subject to more coro-nary disease. Dr. R. W. Stone, assistant medicaldirector of AT&T, said that by re-ex- amining the group, they hope to learnwhether the increase in atmosphericpollutants both here and in Englandhas resulted in an increase in bronchi-tis and heart disease. Telephone men were selected forthe study not only because of occu-pational similarities but also becauseof similar social, educational and fi-nancial backgrounds. The big differ-ence is where they live and what theybreathe. Three testing areas are being usedin the U.S.: Washington, D.C., West-chester County, New York, and Balti-more, Maryland. Another study willbe conducted in New York City nextyear. A representative of the NipponTelegraph and Telephone Company isalso participating in the current studyin preparation for administering a sim-ilar study in Japan.
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jjmes Cogarty of New York Telephone is taking part in an international study of theeffects of smog on outside telephone workers. Administering the checkup is Dr. FernandoSanchez of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. 31 Telstar was space breaker Live television broadcasts from Lon-don, Tokyo, and even Moscow occurso frequently these days that mostviewers pretty much take them forgranted. And yet, it was just five yearsago that the Bell Systems pioneeringTelstar satellite ushered in the era ofinternational television. Launched July 10, 1962, Telstar 1-and its sister satellite, Telstar II, whichwas put into orbit a year later—provedworldwide communications by satel-lite was both possible and practical. Although radiation silenced it earlyin 1963, Telstar I transmitted the firstlive television across the Atlantic inaddition to handling experimentalvoice and data transmissions. Thehigher-orbiting Telstar II was out ofthe reach of the radiation belts aroundthe earth so

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