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Identifier: belltelephonemag18amerrich (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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The irausniission cliaracicrislics of ielephone lines vary tcilh changes in teniperalure. Here, measurenienls are being made of the constants of a reel of cable in the cold chandyer just risible at the right of the picture. 75
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.^ o r ^ a, oi ~5 76 Notes on Recent Occurrences OPEN DIRECT SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA DIRECT telephone contact between the United States andAustraha was established on December 20 over a short-wave radiotelephone circuit between San Francisco and Syd-ney. The occasion was marked by an exchange of greetingsbetween government and telephone officials over a circuit link-ing Washington with Sydney and Melbourne. Telephone service between this country and Australia hashitherto been set up over two radio circuits interconnected atLondon. The new route shortens the distance by more than4,000 miles and provides a much better quality of circuit. The San Francisco-Sydney circuit is operated by the Amer-ican Telephone and Telegraph Company and AmalgamatedWireless (Australasia) Ltd. The circuit interconnects allBell and Bell-connecting telephones in the United States,Cuba and Mexico with the Austrahan Post Office system. Onaccount of the shorter distance over the direct route, the rateis materially l

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