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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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in BellSystem telephone companies throughout the country. Further ahead in the future is the top of the hier-archy, called the T4. When it emerges from thelaboratory into commercial use, it will operate ata speed of 282 million pulses per second, and willtransmit 4,032 voice channels or three televisionpictures at once, or combinations of Picturephone,data and other signals. The capacity and speed may not seem to meanmuch in this day of big numbers, but it is extremelyimportant for its potential, states Mr. Hoth. Highspeeds and huge capacity are necessary in todaystechnology to transmit signals without distortion andto speak the same language as computers. Pulsecode modulation, in effect, speaks the same lan-guage with all types of communications. With the growing demands for compatibility,flexibility, greater speed — as well as quality andeconomy — were convinced, Mr. Hoth adds, thatthe digital systems will meet the needs in the yearsahead. D 25 The Affair of the Spindled Manager
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by Richard W. White In glancing over my notebooks for the year 18—, I amstruck by the variety and complexity of the casessolved by those, by now, well known methods of myfriend Sherlock Holmes. The public is not yet prepared to hear all the factsconcerning the notorious blackmailer. Baron vonBoo. Nor is it yet prudent to reveal the events leadingup to that April morning when Lola Leer, the musichall dancer, was found stark naked and raving mad inthe bell tower of Winchester Cathedral. But a notefrom Holmes at his bee farm in Sussex assures me thatit Is time now to disclose the facts in the affair of thespindled manager. It was a wild November night. The dun colouredfog swirled through the streets of London, driven bygale winds and lashing rain. My wife being away onan extended visit with her mother, I had temporarilytaken up lodgings again in the familiar rooms in BakerStreet. Nothing had changed. The coal scuttle with its Mr. White, a contributor to a number of national magazines,

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