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Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (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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the sleet belt. Asspring comes on, they may again bemoved into areas which are occasion-ally subject to floods. In this wa>the strategic points move about andfewer equipments may be made to dothe work that otherwise would requiremany more. The map on page 229shows the distribution of equipmentsby states throughout the country onOctober 1, 1942. This distributionwill doubtless vary somewhat frommonth to month. The number of radio telephoneequipments now in service, which isover a hundred, is somewhat greaterthan during 1941 and almost doublethe number in use in 1940. Underexisting conditions, when communica-tion facilities are loaded with businessvital to the war and so large a part ofthe messages handled are essential,there is an even greater need foradded protection to service. Pro-vided materials can be obtained, thenumber of equipments in use nextyear will be still further increased. How They Serve in Emergencies UuRiNG 1940 there were sixteencases in which emergency radio tele-
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The Rear Compartment In this separate section of the trailer are the power supply, wire, and miscellaneous tools and equipment phone equipments were employed forrestoring service. Causes included anumber of sleet storms in the middlewest, a mild hurricane in South Caro-lina, and a forest fire on Cape Cod.The next year there were about twodozen cases of restoration which usedemergency radio telephone equipment.In almost all of these cases, radio pro-vided the only means of communica-tion for periods varying from an houror so to as long as 13 days in the caseof a submarine cable across the mouthof the Columbia River which failedin August, 1941. In addition to the uses of emer-gency radio telephone equipment fol-lowing such disasters as are caused by 240 Bell Telephone Magazine winds, floods, sleet, explosions, andfires, these radio telephone terminalshave a day-to-day use in emergencies.A number of examples could be cited,but two may be of interest as illustra-tive of the kind of thing

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