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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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943 Telephone Service for War Industries 105 customer consists of urging him totest his protection plan and its com-munications by means of fairly fre-quent rehearsals, as a device for de-tecting and remedying flaws. This business of servicing the tele-phone communications of businesscustomers is not a new activity. Itis, indeed, an old one—but now witha new and greater importance. Whatcould, In our times, be more vital thanhelping shipyards produce more war-ships and cargo vessels, aircraft fac-tories more fighters and bombers. tank plants more tanks? More es-sential than conserving scarce ma-terials by making certain that theiruse for telephone service is made tothe best advantage? More neces-sary than helping to protect the na-tions production lines against enemyaction? The full scope of servicing work Isnot widely known. It Is true. But Itsaccomplishments are already such asto rank it among the more importantof the Systems many and constantcontributions to the winning of thewar.
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Contrasts in horsepower of half a century. New Yorks Broadway streetrailroad was changed from horse cars to cable cars 50 years ago this spring. Thecable was pulled into the slotted tube in the street by the thirty-six splendidhorses pictured at the left, according to the Scientific American of April 11, 1893.Contrasting with this scene is one of the cable-laying trains, with a combined400 horsepower, which plowed the transcontinental telephone cable into the ground. Industrial and College Research Organizations Contribute j to Winning the JVar in an Unprecedented Coordination of I the Nation s Scientific Resources American ScienceMobilizes for Victory Robert IV. King Foreword There are no accomplishments ofthe Bell System in which its men andwomen take greater pride than thosemarking the continuous activities ofthe Bell Telephone Laboratories indeveloping and applying the art ofcommunication. These accomplishments, reflectedfor decades in improved instrumen-talities and systems for t

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