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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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-ports in the Washington files ofWestern Electrics installation de-partment touch on the matter, as: Shepherd & Sligo ^2—347frames, 14,300 lines—started3/1/41, cutover 6/28/41—Nor-mal interval 31 weeks, actual 12 1943 How JVashingtons Telephones Went to War 55 —Double shift job—21 car-loads of equipment erected in 10days— There are many such reports. To house this equipment and allthe assortment of apparatus thatmake up a going central office—cableand switch frames, generators andtest desks—eleven buildings werebuilt or enlarged and administrativeforces moved to rented quarters, the vided. Twelve of these cables wereplaced at one time under the Potomacto serve the War Department in itsnew Pentagon Building. But rivercrossings and submarine cables arenot good criteria of the amount ofoutside plant that has been added forsubscribers telephone lines, for thecables between Government buildings,for inter-office trunks, and we let itall go with the bare statement that in
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These 12 reels of telephone cable, averaging 2,200 feet in length, were laid across the bottom of the Potomac River to supplement those already carrying voices between Washington and points beyond area of which now equals one-tenthof Company-owned property. The Anacostia and Potomac Riverscome together at Haines Point andcut a sharp V through the heart ofthe Metropolitan area. Eighteencables (12,800 pairs) comfortablycarried the flow of messages over andunder these water barriers through1940. But war tolerates no barriers,and in two years 22 new crossings(22,000 pairs) were needed and pro- three years 445,000 miles of aerialand underground wire have beenadded in Washington alone, an in-crease of 48 per cent—7,100 milesper square land mile. To// Service for tfie Capita/ History repeats itself. WhileAmbassador Bernsdorf was deliver-ing his Kaisers note to the State De-partment that February day in 1917,some telephone engineer was perfect- 56 Bell Telephone Magazine FEBRUARY Ing plans

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