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Identifier: belltelephonemag18amerrich (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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■2o i\ SOME HISTORIC TELEPHONE EXHIBITS phone history, for it attested what had been attained in a httlemore than a decade of telephone development. It affordedlittle indication of what, in the hopes and dreams of telephoneengineers, was yet attainable. The relatively modest BellSystem display must have aroused but meager interest, as con-trasted with the Eiffel Tower, which was erected as the chiefattraction of the Paris exposition. Yet there is somethingthat appeals to the romantic in the fact that it was on an an-tenna on the Eiffel Tower that, twenty-six years later, twoBell System engineers picked up the first words ever trans-mitted across the Atlantic by radio telephone, and therebyblazed the trail which led to the world-wide telephone serviceof today. Telephone engineers in 1889 were not even thinking of im-mediate goals as ambitious as a service which reached acrossthe oceans or even across the continent—their next objectivewas much less visionary, though difficult enough

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