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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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uld beavailable at the time equipment wasready for shipment. In this cooperative effort, the BellLaboratories carried the torch in de-sign work. Western Electric in manu-facture. Long Lines and AssociatedCompanies in training, and the A. T. & T. general staff in engineering andcoordination. Working hand in glove * 1943-44 Bell System Plant Schooling for Service Men 223 with telephone people were Army of-ficers assigned to similar work inthe Signal Corps like the technicalstaff at the Signal Corps Laboratoriesat Fort Monmouth; the staff officersin the Military Training Division,Army Service Forces, and in the Of-fice of the Chief Signal Officer inWashington; and those serving onsignal assignments in the various tion and teamwork between the twoorganizations. Basic and Advanced Courses The repeatermen trained forSpiral-4 and for the Alaska com-munication system comprise a largegroup of service men trained in BellSystem schools, but they representjust one of the many kinds of skilled
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Demonstration boards help the service man) to visualize telephone circuits.This board is wired to reproduce trouble of various kinds Service Commands throughout thecountry. The same kind of coordination hasbeen worked out with the Navy andother branches of the Service. Or-ganization of the Bell System, withits line and staff set-up, bears a closeresemblance to that of the armedforces. This has gone a long way tosupplement the fine spirit of coopera- craftsmen turned out by these schools.For the Navy and the Coast Guardmost of the training has been on tele-typewriter and radio telegraph sys-tems, to take care of expanded over-seas operations. Courses for theCoast Guard personnel include main-tenance of facilities for shore patrolanti-submarine and aircraft warningservices needed along remote coastal 224 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER sections to supplement land line fa-cilities. For the Marines, as well as for theSignal Corps, land lines and wire sys-tems come into play and a muchwider

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