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Identifier: belltelephonemag22amerrich (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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r, for example, the way somany of them place calls with thePBX attendant—saying some suchthing as Get me so-and-so and thenhanging up. Instead, therefore, ofthe simple operation of plugging intoa trunk so that the caller himself canmake the call, the attendant may haveto look up the number, dial or passthe call to the central office, wait until 1943 Telephone Service for War Industries lOI the called party is reached, and thenring back the caller. It is easy tovisualize how much more operatingtime this requires. Multiply it bydozens and perhaps hundreds of callsa day, and you begin to get some ideaof how easily a customer can believethat he needs more switchboard whenin reality he does not. of the day when there are relativelyfew incoming calls. This is far froma universal solution, however; theservicing representative would obvi-ously not advise this when the post-ponement of making calls would inany way interfere with the organiza-tions efficiency and thereby impedethe war effort.
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To THIS Control Center of a war plants air raid protection set-up, wardens and fire watchers would telephone reports of damage, and from it rescue and repair activities would be administered—also largely by telephone. A telephone company servicing representative assisted in planning the communication arrangements While on the subject of switch-boards, it seems desirable to add an-other illustration: that of the boardwhich is really overloaded but dur-ing relatively short so-called peakperiods. Here the remedy is some-times simply to get the organizationto spread the calling load, such as bymaking outgoing calls during times L Conservation PrinciplesApplied to Trunks Considerable space has been de-voted to private branch switchboardsbecause, after all, a position of switch-board is a relatively large piece oftelephone apparatus and may requirethe use of some hundreds of pounds I02 Bell Telephone Magazine JUNE of critical materials. But the sameprinciples apply to trunks and instru-me

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