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Identifier: belltelephonemag19amerrich (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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o SanFrancisco. When the time came, hehad a short circuit across the trans-mitter at which McFarland sat; andnot until he had heard Vails voicein his monitoring receiver did he cutit with the pliers he had provided forthat purpose. Like an unveiling cere-mony, when the cords are drawn orcut, the line opened to the telephoneexecutives on opposite sides of thecontinent. Ihat is the technical history of thefirst transcontinental line as one mansaw it and remembers it. Obviouslyan incomplete story, it offers its apolo-gies for omissions of names and ac-complishments. Only an article manytimes longer could do justice to thatdevelopment, and for that the existingrecords are too meager. Documen-tary research would not yield its com-plete story. Much of it would haveto come from the memories of Jewettand of Colpitts. Arnold, the thirdof those most responsible for theachievement, is dead; but his tech-nical contributions have left a pro-found and continuing effect on all thecommunication arts.
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g II. THE CIRCUITS GO UP Construction Completed Despite Nature^s Obstacles, Impressive Ceremonies Gave Notice to the World that the First Telephone Line from Coast to Coast Was a Working Success By H. H. nance and R. M. ORAM THE building of the first trans-continental telephone line wasnot a single project in thesame sense as was the Panama Canal.While there had been a steady pro-gression of the countrys telephonesystem westward from the Atlanticshore, it had been a succession ofsteps, each attaining to a^definite goal,and each linking the telephones new-est frontier with the East. Moreover,each step represented about the max-imum extension which was practicableat that stage of the art of telephony.We can be fairly certain that theidea of coast-to-coast service was inthe minds of telephone men for manyyears. For one thing, we can go backto the American Telephone and Tele-graph Companys charter, issued in1885, and find the incorporators talk-ing about service to each and everyother of

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