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Identifier: belltvol20elephonemag00amerrich (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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^, a whole chain ofradio telephone shore stations servingthe nation has come into being in re-cent years. In addition to the Bostonstation, which serves New Englandwaters, the Atlantic coast line isdotted with a series of stations whichinclude New York (two stations),Wilmington, Norfolk, Charleston andMiami. Ships plying the waters ofthe Gulf of Mexico are served by shorestations at Tampa, New Orleans, andGalveston. Similar service is availableon the Pacific coast, as ships can talkat any time to homes and officesthrough the shore stations located atSan Pedro, San Francisco. Astoria,Portland and Seattle. Of these fifteenBell stations, Wilmington, Charleston,Tampa, and Galveston started servicein 1940, and an additional channel was 19^1 The Telephone Afloat 235
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Figure 1Shore stations of the coastal and harbor radio telephone service also added to one of the New York sta-tions last year. New stations at As-toria and Portland were opened inFebruary, 1941, and others are underconstruction at Eureka, California,and at Detroit and Port Huron,Michigan. Figure 1 shows the location of allthese Bell radio telephone shore sta-tions, and also shows those which havebeen provided by connecting radiotelephone companies for serving boatson the Great Lakes and on certainrivers. These connecting-companyshore stations are located at Buffalo,N. Y.; Lorain, O.; Rogers City,Mich.; Lake Forest, 111.; Port Wash-ington, Wis.; Duluth, Minn.; Phila-delphia, Pa.; Memphis, Tenn.; andCape Girardeau, Mo. x\ll these shore stations serve as connecting links between the landtelephone lines and the various ves-sels as they ply the waters of ourcoasts and inland seas. A call from aboat goes by radio to the radio tele-phone shore station desired, where itis picked up and place

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