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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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akers voice. In order to makepossible these globe-girdling facili-ties for the transmission of speech,things almost innumerable have hadto be created: vacuum tubes in a widevariety of forms; tuning coils andcondensers; intricate networks ofwires for antennas; even more intri-cate systems of wires that form thecircuits of transmitting and receivingapparatus. But none of these things createditself. Behind each of them—downto the least essential element of thisfar-flung system of facilities—hasbeen human imagination, human ef-fort. Behind each small detail of thisvast Thing that is called Radio Te-lephony there lies the statement offact with which so many nurserystories begin, and which Kipling para-phrases: Once on a time there was aman. Or, more properly speaking, behindeach of these details that have beenbuilt into the creation of modernradio telephone communication therehas stood not one man, but many.For it is impossible to put ones fingeron a single contribution to the achieve-
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