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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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eration on the following Sun-day morning at 3 :oo A.M. Twoweeks prior to cutover, a dress re-hearsal was held at which time about that the estimates of the time to dothe job were about right. Visitors In the operators restroomjust before the cutover heard a buzzof questions: How will it work?Will I be the one to handle the firstcall? What will the offices work-ing into Philadelphia think about It,and will they know what to do? 234 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER Shortly before the appointed timea group of operators took their posi-tions at the new No. 4 switchboardand anxiously awaited the first in-coming call. At precisely 3 :oo A.M.it came in and any pre-arranged se-lection could not have been moreappropriate for a system serving a operator, though visibly excited, per-formed her duties efficiently and ac-curately. Thereafter, additionalcalls began to come through, and inno time every operator had her op-portunity to use the new equipment.The No. 4 Toll System was officiallylaunched.
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Useful in the day-to-day administration of the office is the quick picture which this control cabinet gives of circuit conditions, stored-up calls awaiting completion, and the equipment situation as regards senders and repeaters nation-wide toll network. The callspanned the continent from Mar-tinez, Calif., to Germantown, Pa. Inaccordance with standard routing in-structions, the Martinez operatorrouted this call to San Francisco, thento Pittsburgh, then to Philadelphia—where a No. 4 operator wasbrought into play. The Philadelphia In the day-to-day administration ofthe office, there are many helpful fea-tures, not included in currently con-ventional toll switchboards, whichare a distinct aid to the traffic oper-ating people who are responsible forthe maintenance of service. For ex-ample, the System automaticallyroutes each incoming call to the next 1943-44 A Dial Switching System for Toll Calls ^3S available idle operator and, if alloperators are busy at the moment,waiting calls are

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