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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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Structure No One Has EverSeen Entire In considering the evolution of tel-ephony, I must remind you that weare dealing with a structure that doesnot lend itself to pictorial representa-tion. I wish this were not the case.I wish that it were possible to throwon the screen here a lantern slide thatwould depict a transcontinental lineand upon which I could, by appeal toyour eye, assist you in visualizing theadditions and changes which markthe progress of a quarter of a cen-tury. When one attempts by wordof mouth to explain the problems oftelephony and how they have beenand are being overcome, he has, Imust admit, a uniquely difficult pieceof work in hand. He must reduce towords—and I know that you wouldprefer not too many words—a struc-ture which not even he himself—^letalone any one in his audience—hasever seen in its entirety. Likewise,he must put into words as best hecan a host of concepts which find theirproper expression only in mathemati- 40 Bell Telephone Qlarterly JANUARY
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THE NORTHERN ROUTE The 77)osf northerly of the transcontinental lines crosses the Continental Divide aMcDonald Pass, ivest of Helena, Mont. This view is to the East from just below the summit cal symbols and processes or in thespecialized language of the physicist.If I could transport you rapidly,magic-carpet-wise, out across the con-tinent three thousand miles or so,thus enabling you to visualize whata complex thing is this creation weare to consider this evening, I mighthope to convey to you at least asuperficial conception of its elaborate-ness and seeming fragility. Only inthis way, I am sure, would you fullysense how remarkable it is that thisfar-fllung and delicate structure shouldbe endowed with surprising electricalstability and immunity to meteoro-logical and man-made interference. JLet us at the outset imagine a sin-gle i)air of wires extending out of thewindow and thence across-country forhundreds or even thousands of miles;and let us bear in mind that thesewires, by virtue

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