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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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nits specificallydesigned for naval aircraft; radiosthat help American tanks smash theenemy; throat microphones for tankcrews; tiny high-altitude microphonesfor men who, wearing oxygen masks,fight above the clouds; and field tele-phone sets for front-line soldiers—these are only a few of Hawthornesmany battle products. On Hawthornes Radar projectalone, blueprints come out of thedrafting department at the rate of35,000 drawings per week to supply 1943 Alio Marocr 159 the manufacturing personnel withworking information on each of themore than 7,000 piece parts fromwhich some of these complex mecha-nisms are assembled. The Point Breeze Works Essential link of the telephonesystems in theaters of combat, and in zeal born of the war emergency,made that record. Each week from Point Breeze havecome hundreds of miles of rubberinsulated field telephone wire, eachreel stamped with the insignia ofthe Signal Corps. This wire hasproved itself from Bielvmechetskoiato Guadalcanal, from Point Barrow
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With manufacture of telephones for civilians suspended, reconditioning of used sets is an important function of Western Electrics distributing houses. Telephones are cleaned, repaired, re-corded, and tested before being sent back to service every war production area in theUnited States, is telephone cable, oneof the principal products of the PointBreeze Works in Baltimore. Somemonths ago, in response to a rushorder from the Government, PointBreeze turned out 16 miles of tape-armored cable in one fourth of thenormal time. Special equipment, and to the Cape of Good Hope. It is thesame product which was dropped re-cently from a bomber to speed tele-phone communication across a nearlyimpassable Alaskan glacier, and itssnaky course dogged Rommel and hishordes to their defeat across thesand-swept reaches of North Africa.The men and women of Point i6o Bell Telephone Magazine SEPTEMBER Breeze are turning out, on a three-shift schedule, telephone and micro-phone cords for the Army and Navyand

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