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Identifier: belltelephonemag11amerrich (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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j2 s new yorks long distance building represents the nerve center for the gigantic network of longdistance telephone wires delivering distant programs to thevarious stations of the major broadcasting companies. Atpresent the Bell System furnishes to broadcasting companiesabout 45,000 miles of special telephone circuits. In addition,about 75,000 miles of telegraph and teletypewriter wires areused to co-ordinate the activities of nearly 200 broadcastingstations scattered throughout the country. With programswhich may change every fifteen minutes, from dawn until mid-night, the demands upon this force and their equipment are ofan exacting nature. Changes must be effected with split-second accuracy, emergencies must be provided for—whateverhappens, programs must go through. In another part of the building considerable space is devotedto the latest Bell System communication development—Tele-typewriter Exchange Service. At switchboards similar tothose already seen, operators swiftly int

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