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Identifier: belltelephonemag22amerrich (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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odified to meet chang-ing conditions. So the general stafforganization of the A. T. & T. Com-pany, through its close associationwith engineering and operating per- 1943 Getting Along With What We Have 197 sonnel, is constantly seeking newideas on ways to save materials. Allideas which appear to have possibil-ity of general application are studiedcarefully and, if needs and possibili-ties warrant, are developed further.Information on new practices whichare found to be of general value isquickly disseminated to all of the As-sociated Companies. Development and application ofconservation measures have been staller in Miami, Florida, since bothmen work with the same materialsand tools and do their work in thesame way. The development of ways of sav-ing materials has not been confinedto any one branch or department ofthe System. All branches have madeimportant contributions, and there isscarcely a phase of the telephonebusiness that has escaped scrutiny.The Bell Telephone Laboratories,
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It takes a skilled craftsman to wipe ajoint in a cable The new Victory cable joint has onlya thin fillet of solder greatly simplified by the fact thatstandardization is one of the corner-stones on which the Bell System hasbeen built. Because of the high de-gree of standardization that pervadesthe System, ideas and experiencesoriginating in one Associated Com-pany can generally be applied directlyby all other companies; a worth-whileidea for saving material originatingwith an installer in Sequim, Washing-ton, may be applied directly by an in- from the fund of information ac-cumulated in years of systematic re-search, have found substitutes for thescarce materials. The Western Elec-tric Company, through its knowledgeof materials and manufacturingoperations, has greatly expedited in-troduction of these substitutions andhas developed other changes in manu-facture which have resulted in largesavings in material. The AssociatedCompanies, with the cooperation and 198 Bell Telephone Magazine

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