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Identifier: belltelephonemag26amerrich (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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th a suffi-cient number of eyewitness accounts,personal anecdotes, and human-inter-est stories to give it life. Needless tosay, these latter were eventuallyquoted verbatim, not only to retaintheir original flavor but to indicate that they were only anecdotes; for inthe main body of the text the chiefemphasis was on authenticity, and noamount of labor was spared to verifyand document every statement offact. The greatest problem of all washow many persons should be men-tioned in the story and how muchspace should be given to each one. It was a delicate matter, andseemed a formidable problem, but itwas solved, at the suggestion of thehistorian, by the simple device ofadding biographical footnotes. Origi-nally it had been planned to excludenearly all footnotes, but the historianpointed out that the history of atelephone company is a form of localhistory and should be approached assuch. In works of this kind, peopleare as important as events, and fam-ily history is one of the primary aims.
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The granddaddy of them all. The worlds first commercial switchboard as sketched by its inventor^ George W. Coy. This invaluable drawing was made in 1905 at the request of a historically-minded pioneer. The original board was destroyed in 1879 6o Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING The force of this argument was to fill them up by advertising in theallowed, and biographical footnotes newspapers and buying old copies.—genealogical footnotes, they might Orders were also placed early withbe called, as they included everything booksellers for rare magazines con-from birth to death and from parents taining articles touching on the earlyto children—were prepared for the days, as these orders usually tookfounders of the company, for dis- many months to fill. The corporatetinguished early pioneers of any rank, records, however, presented littleand for all later officers of the com- difficulty, as the company was fortu-panv down to the heads of the tri- nate in having a complete run of di-functi

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