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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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string an-tennas; some to coordinate all thesehighly specialized efforts. 1 HE notes of almost all of these mengive evidence of long periods charac-terized by results that were discour-aging in the extreme; failures, fol-lowed by the trial of something elsethat worked a little better; doggedand patient cutting and trying until,at last, fairly satisfactory results wereachieved. But alertness—the habit of keepingones eyes and mind open for any pos-sible suggestion that might prove help-ful—played its part as well. One ofthe men, for example, had been sentto Virginia to make a study of pointsthat might be selected for a receivingstation. As his train was pulling intoWilmington, Delaware, his eye caughta glimpse of two tall masts on a roofin the business section. He investi-gated, found that they were on theDupont Building, and had been usedby a now defunct wireless telegraphstation to support its antennas. Uponhis recommendation, the location wasselected for the receiving station for
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MoNTAUK Point Tower This is the i65-foot structure which Espen-schied had to ascend on April h, when ablizzard had laid the antenna on the ground the Bell Systems radio telephone ex-periments. Other shrewd observations by youngengineers, equally alert to the rele-vance of the seemingly insignificant,led to vitally important improvementsin apparatus or in methods of its op-eration. Much of this work went onsimultaneously, and had to be co-ordinated by Carty, Jewett, Colpittsand others who had general super-vision of the job. By the last ofMarch, such progress had been madethat Easter Sunday, April 4, was setfor the first demonstration. 28 Bell Telephone Magazine FEBRUARY Montauk to Wilmington XXECEiviNG apparatus had been setup at the point selected at Wilming-ton. Meanwhile John Mills andothers had erected two 165-foot steeltowers at Montauk Point, Long Is-land, had strung their antennas, andhad installed transmitting apparatusin a small wooden structure built forthe purpose. A group

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