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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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tenance effort. The first requirement was speed.During a recent address in NewYork, Brig. General Frank E. Stonerdescribed three bests that mightbe desirable for a particular job: 1. Scientific best—which comes closest to perfection but takeslongest to produce. 2. Engineering best—a slightly less faultless job requiringsomewhat less time. 1943-44 Packaged Carrier^^ for the Signal Corps 239 3. Best thats available—This,General Stoner said, is thebest that the Army fre-quently has to use because itis needed right away. In the case of package systems, timewas a controlling factor, so the initialdesigns employed units of standardBell System apparatus wherever prac- Under war conditions, the equipmentmust stand up under rough treatment.Also, equipment packed for exportmust be protected during transitagainst the effects of tropical rains,high humidity, and extreme tempera-ture ranges. The size and weight were limitedso that the individual packages couldreadily be moved. Though the ap-
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SiGNAL Corps officers inspect cases of packaged equipment which have beendelivered for an Army field trial. They represent a typical shipment of equipment for one communications office ticable. The compact equipment as-semblies were quite different, how-ever, from existing arrangements ofSystem equipment for central officeinstallation. These first designswere then followed by improved onesto make the equipment moisture re-sistant and otherwise suitable for useunder a wide variety of climatic con-ditions. Ruggedness was one requirement. paratus is intended for fixed com-munications, a considerable amountof handling may be necessary, oftenunder difficult conditions, before thelocation of the equipment becomesfixed. Another important considerationwas flexibility. The major items ofapparatus selected for the severalassemblies were chosen for the kindof wire and pole lines most likely to 240 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER be employed, but something had to bedone to take care of the unusual

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