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Identifier: belltelephonemag13amerrich (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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Operators ix Dial Centr.al Offices Help in Haxdlixg Calls between Manual axdDlal Telephont;s and to Points Out of Town
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IxsiRLCTixG Student Centr-al Office Operators at Practice Switchboards THE TELEPHONE PROBLEM example, GRamercy 5 and GRamercy 7. When another of-fice is estabHshcd in the same neighborhood, it is practicableto use the same name but with another numeral. This planalso has the merit of permitting the wider use of neighborhoodnames or of names with which the public has already becomefamiliar in telephone use. For example, in New Jersey,where it was introduced prior to its adoption in New York City,one of the main purposes was to retain the locality name in thecentral office designation for towns and cities having less thannine central offices. This would have been impossible withoutsuch a plan. From a manual telephone, the caller gives thename and numeral, followed by the line number, to the opera-tor. From a dial telephone within the dialing area, the callerdials the first two letters of the name, as shown in capitals inthe directory, the office numeral, and the line number. In housing

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