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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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lacingcables underground, by the provisionof alternative routes for backbone cir-cuits, and by providing a plant whichhas the flexibility which will permitof rapid adjustments in time of emer-gency. To the telephone engineers thisnever ending battle against the de-structive powers of the elements isfascinating. It is a fair fight, a con-tinuation of the one begun when prim-itive man first sought the caves toescape those same elements. In thismodern age the struggle has countlessramifications. As we are so often re-minded, our civilization is built onpower, transportation, and communi-cations. The public resents even tem-porary failures on the part of any oneof these three great servants. In thetelephone field, as in the others, thepublics standards become more andmore exacting. The telephone engi-neer does not decry this but, instead,seeks new ways to circumvent thewhirlwind attacks which less and lessfrequently result in interruptions totelephone service at the time it is mostneeded.
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Fig. 16. PLOWING TELEPHONE CABLE UNDERGROUND This powerful tractor-plow-trailer train places cable underground to a depth of three to fourfeet, the cable being fed automatically from the reel at the rear through the plow directly ahead AT THE CUSTOMERS SERVICE Residence and Business Services and Equipment Are Available in JVide Variety to Meet Telephone Users^ Many Different Needs Conveniently, Efficiently, and Economically By JUDSON S. BRADLEY THE growth in number of tele-phones in the United Statesto the present record total ofmore than twenty-one millions is awell-known fact, as is their geographicdistribution throughout the length andbreadth of the country. Less wellknown is the wide variety of tele-phone services, and of the instrumentsthrough which these services are ren-dered. Indeed, so many are thereand so different and often specializedare their applications that only thosein the business who in one way or an-other have directly to do with themcan be well acquainted with the

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