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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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d, he responded, bya trip he made through the West in1878 to inspect the telephones thatwere then in use. My route took in Chicago, Mil-waukee, Pittsburgh, Washington, andall of the larger cities on route, hesaid. I found our telephones givingfairly good satisfaction to the users,although to me, when I tested them,they seemed to work badly. I wasespecially dissatisfied with my callbells. Both telephones and bells hadevidently been neglected since theyhad been put into use; apparentlynothing had been done to them in theway of cleaning or adjustment sincethey left the shop. My time on thistrip was largely spent in showing ourmen how to adjust the instrumentsand impressing them with the need ofconstant inspection to keep themworking at their best. Thus, fromthe start there was a real need to getinto the field peoples hands the nec-essary information on the propermaintenance of the equipment. While not a matter of record,stories handed down from the goodold days make it appear that stand-
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/l group of Practice writers at work in their special quarters ard procedures were not always fol-lowed. One tale relates to an op-erator who undertook to clean theswitchboard plugs with steel wool.It seemed like a good idea—espe-cially as the plugs were thoroughlycleaned. The out was that finesteel slivers adhered to the plugs,so that when they were inserted inthe switchboard jacks they shortedout the jack contacts. The plugcleaning was necessarily followed bya thorough job of jack cleaning. Another off the record yarn tellsof an equipment attendant who washaving trouble with a bay of equip-ment which contained a good manyrelays. Each morning, when he cameto work, he found an accumulationof trouble reports which past ex-perience told him were caused bysticky relays in the bay. Finally,he resolved to take drastic action;and each morning thereafter he hitthe bay a wallop with a short lengthof two-by-four. The method wastemporarily effective, but ultimatelyit was recognized as not a s

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