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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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now available to handlethe business. Circuits to Everywhere Switchboards alone carry no mes-sages. A quarter-century ago UncleSam bravely went to war with a net-work of less than 150 long line cir-cuits out of Washington at his com-mand. December i, 1940, he waspreparing for defense with 458. In1941 he went to war with 730. He 1943 How Washingtori s Telephones Went to War 57 wages war today with more than1,200. But these, divided up as theymust be, to find their way to 121 dif-ferent cities in 28 states and Canada,are not yet enough; and so about one-quarter of them are redistributedeach day as the flow of traffic changes.The story of circuits rightfully be-longs to Long Lines, but it Is also the The bare record shows 54 carriersystems^ were Installed in 1942.These figures, unadorned, will not Im-press the layman; the fact remains,however, that this mystifying appa-ratus, in bulk enough to fill a largedwelling, yielded upwards of 600 cir-cuits that In a day can carry 18,000war calls.
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Private branch switchboards are Important in providing service for Gov-ernment agencies. Here are some being prepared for Installation by wiringspecialists at Western Electrics Washington distributing house story of the Laboratories and of theK-Carrler. Its plain, of course,these new circuits were not strungfrom day to day on pole lines to dis-tant cities. They are, with small ex-ception, the product of the K-Car-rier system; one In a family of car-rier current developments, that en-ables two cable pairs to providetwelve telephone channels. Nor were these installations busi-ness as usual, for at the beginningof 1942 there were In place only 64systems * and plans are on foot forthe Installation of 60 more in 1943.Already Washington is the secondlargest carrier center in the country. Calls to the nearer towns and cities 2 50 terminal and 4 through systems.* 28 terminal and 36 through systems. 58 Bell Telephone Magazine FEBRUARY pass over the circuits of the localcompanies, and these too

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