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Identifier: bellvol25telephonemag00amerrich (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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anchesof the Army and Navy and O.S.R.D. It was not always so unspectacular,either. Our Navy needed its shipson the firing line; the availabilityof a ship was often cruelly short. There was the case of the battle-ship Massachusetts, which arrivedin Boston to prepare, as it later de-veloped, for the bombardment atCasablanca. She wanted two firecontrol equipments replaced withradar of a later and improved design.But since she was under 12-hour sail-ing orders, no work could be startedthat might take longer than that tocomplete. Ordinarily, it took severaldays to complete a single installationof the new fire control equipment.The captain decided to replace, ifpossible, at least one of his old equip-ments. When this job, in the opin-ion of the Western Electric field en-gineer, was within 12 hours of com-pletion (this point came at 2 a.m.),the captain gave orders to start thedismantling of the second outmodedequipment. Had the field engineer Western Electric Experts with the Armed Forces 69
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Future field engineers at a Western Electric radar training school in New York.The men shown here were studying Navy fire-control radar equipment been wrong in his estimate of the timeneeded to complete the first new in-stallation, and had the battleship thenreceived her sailing orders, she wouldhave had to sail for Casablanca withno radar fire control. P.S.: It took 10 hours to finish thefirst installation—and the Massa-chusetts had her second new equip-ment operating, too, before she sailed. The bible of the field engineerworking far from his company head-quarters, and possibly far even fromany brother engineers, was his collec-tion of engineering notes or Equip-ment Bulletins. Because of the di-versified and difficult nature of hisresponsibilities, the field engineer re-lied on their comprehensive coverage,in concise, accurate terms, of a greatvariety of apparatus, systems, andtheory. Containing circuit and assemblydrawings as well as illustrations de- scribing 67 different equip

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