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Identifier: belltelephonemag19amerrich (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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companiesand flashed to millions listening attheir receiving sets. Operating from specially devisedbooths far above the floor of the con-( vention, the broadcasting companiesingeniously devised and strategicallylocated facilities permit, by the mereturning of control switches, the pick-ing up of speeches by delegates, stateby state announcement of the ballot-ing, interspersed at intervals by in-terviews with candidates at their hotels in downtown Philadelphia andby the colorful comments of radiocommentators. Flanking the platform on eitherside are row after row of newspapermen and women, their pencils andtypewriters putting on paper pulsingword descriptions of the proceedingswhich are transmitted instantly byscores of nearby teletypewriter andMorse key operators to the news-papers throughout the land. In a fewbrief minutes people on the streets ofNew York, Chicago, San Franciscoand many other cities will read thesedetailed accounts of events unfolding 180 Bell Telephone Quarterly JULY
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A Bell System Plant man (right)(checkingup on a teletypewriter. Machines such asthese are used by the great press associations at the Convention, so swift are theagencies of communication. The Newcomer: Television Ah, here is something to arrest yourattention! As you look about thegreat hall, your eye catches a glimpseof two odd-looking contrivances on animprovised platform extending fromthe first balcony. Television cam-eras, some one informs you. Thena National Broadcasting Companyengineer explains that NBC, with thecooperation of the Bell TelephoneLaboratories, is televising the conven-tion. Four television cameras are em-ployed at Philadelphia: two are set upto catch the kaleidoscopic scenes inConvention Hall, a third is located ina special studio for interview pur- poses, and the fourth is utilized totelevise party chieftains and others asthey arrive at the Hall. At certain hours during the day andevening the programs are transmittedover telephone wires from ConventionHall to the

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