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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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rgency telephone operation has beendemonstrated on many occasions, butnever before so dramatically as on thatnight. New York Citys Police Commis-sioner Vincent L. Broderick stated thatthe city would have fallen into com-plete chaos if telephone service hadfailed along with electric power. As further insurance that the servicewill not fail, there is a reserve supply ofportable emergency generators which canbe dispatched to any key locations whereconditions indicate they may be needed.These are standbys behind the standbys:an extra margin of safety always held atthe ready. And that back-up equipmentwas put to good use during the blackout.That night, 15 emergency centers wereactivated in the darkened region. Tele-phone personnel in these centers, amongmany other things, directed the dispatchof portable standby generating equipmentand arranged for the loan of auxiliarypower units to essential customers, suchas hospitals, railroad and airline termi-nals, fire and police departments and the
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Scenes like this were duplicated in manycentral offices as operators handled a record25 million calls during the 12-hour blackout. press. Specifically, portable generatorsprovided by the New York TelephoneCompany furnished light at Grand Cen-tral Station in Manhattan, at the PanAm Flight Information Center and in thecontrol tower at La Guardia airport.They insured adequate power for tele-phone switchboards at Roosevelt, BethIsrael, Lebanon, Gouveneur and otherhospitals. At Lebanon Hospital in theBronx, they also powered the refrigera-tion unit, helping to sustain the bloodbank supply. Installers, repairmen andforemen spent the night at 20 other hos-pitals, 80 police stations and five policecommunication centers to help assurecontinuity of service. In Manhattan, tworepairmen carried a 175-pound generatorup eight flights of stairs to maintainpower in the telephone room of the NewYork Daily News. In Stamford, Con-necticut, a convalescent home obtainedpower during the emergency from aSout

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