File:Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14569692239).jpg

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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
hroughout his career. Nor are all of the items in the His-torical Library of interest or im-portance because the names withwhich they are associated are as wellknown as those of Bell, Watson, orVail. Some of them tell the simple,unspectacular stories of linemen,cable-splicers, operators or others 19^2 The American Telephone Historical Library 243 who, each in his own way, have playedparts in the creation of the telephoneservice of today and have impressedtheir own personalities upon it. It is by no means strange that theAmerican Telephone Historical Li-brary, made up as it is of many thou-sands of individual items about tele-phone people, or contributed by tele- phone people, each reflecting a per-sonality, has a personality of its ownthat is, as it were, a compound oramalgam of all of these individualpersonalities. It, too, as well as themultitude of separate documentswhich make it up, is a living thing,reflecting—or doing its best to reflect—the aims and purposes and accom- Tti,
Text Appearing After Image:
trtL- 4--<- a. L. Cr aio — 1/X.C^j- l^-, reproduced in pari above, young Bell relates how Joseph Henry, the famous scientist, encouraged him to acquire the electrical knowledge necessary to carry on the experiments which resulted in the invention of the telephone ,/«lV/,^t6 ^^-^

Note About Images