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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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resi-dent, 1923-1924. Bell Telephone Laboratories, Assistant to President, 1925-1926. In 1915 Mr. Shreve was in charge of the reception in Paris ofexperimental radio telephone messages from Arlington, Va. During theWorld War he served as Lieutenant Colonel in the Signal Corps. Since 1926he has been Assistant to Vice President, American Telephone and TelegraphCompany, and Technical Representative in Europe of the A. T. & T. Co.and Bell Telephone Laboratories. H. S. OSBORNE Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., 1908, Eng.D., 1910. AmericanTelephone and Telegraph Company, Engineering Department, 1910-1914;Assistant to Transmission and Protection Engineer, 1914-1920; TransmissionEngineer, 1920-. R. L. TOMBLEN Bates College, B.A., 1914; Worcester Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1917.American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Department of Operation andEngineering, Commercial Engineers Division, 1919-1929; Chief Statisticiansorganization, 1929-. If « II II> III tit » •III :;Bi
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Lower Br„adwav, New York City, in the SO,, Before Engineers Had Suc-CESSFULLV Developed the Art of Placing Telephone Wires in Cables Id Be-KEATH THE Surface. Some Poles Along Other Highways Were Ninety FeetHigh and Carried as Many as Fifty Cross Arms The Telephone Problem in the WorldsLargest Metropolitan Area A Summary of Past and Present MORE than a sixth of all the telephones in the nation-wideBell System are concentrated in a section which com-poses only about 1 1200th of the land area of the continentalUnited States. This section, as defined by the United States Census Bureau,is the New York-Northeastern New Jersey INIetropolitanDistrict, generally called the New York Metropolitan Area.It includes large sections of those two states and a small partof southwestern Connecticut, comprising a total of 2,514 squaremiles, a territory twice the size of Rhode Island. An exactcircle enclosing such an area would have a diameter of about57 miles. In its actual form, and using the Borough

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