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Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (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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It is the job of the traffic engineer- ing groups to collect, summarize, andinterpret cold statistical data and fi-nally to convert them into what willbe living switchboards. The war hascreated unprecedented amounts of thiswork. Five thousand is a conserva-tive estimate of the number of trafficorders for facilities related to the warwhich have been turned out during thepast twelve months. Almost 1,500 ofthese were of a major type related di-rectly to long distance and local cen-tral offices serving Army camps, navalbases, air fields, ordnance plants andother military establishments. Almost every type of switchboardand facilities associated therewith hasbeen covered. The equipment speci-fied ranged from minor additions toentirely new and complete central of-fices the principal purpose of which isto serve a war establishment, such asthe new office at Cataumet, Massachu-setts, that serves Camp Edwards andthe new office at Starke, Florida, that 19^2 War-Time in the Traffic Departments 149
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Central Office on Wheels This mobile central office has positions forfive operators, and storage batteries andcharging equipment, all mounted on atrailer. Always available for an emer-gency, it is an unusual feature of telephoneplant in Southern California serves Camp Blanding. In these andmany other cases, due to a lack ofbasic data, engineering on the cuff,backed by judgment developed fromlong experience, was the order of theday. Speed has been an important factorin all of this work. A traffic engineerusually waits one, two, or even threeyears to see his mental efforts trans-formed into working equipment. Butin time of war new switchboards springinto being, and others sometimes dou- ble or triple in size, in three to sixmonths from the time they were firstconceived. The problem has been more thanone of speedily engineering newboards and expansions that involvedthe use of standard facilities. Inge-nuity of a high order has been calledfor in adapting available equipment topurposes for

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