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Identifier: belltvol20elephonemag00amerrich (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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ington transmissionwas approximately 200 miles—notgreat, as radio channels are measuredin these days, but an epochal achieve-ment twenty-five years ago. Reaching for New Goals IJUT 200 miles was not enough forpeople who were dreaming of sendingspeech by radio telephone across theAtlantic. They reached out for newgoals, and their next objective wastransmission from Montauk to St.Simons Island, off the Georgia coast—some 800 miles. Here we catchglimpses of John Mills, who had beensent down to select a site and erect aline of masts to support the receivingantenna. He was joined by SydneyHogerton, then District Superintend-ent of the Long Lines Department,with headquarters at Atlanta, and acrew of construction men who wereto erect the masts. Each mast was to be made by lash-ing two poles together. The poleshad been ordered, but did not come.Mills, Hogerton, and their plant gangawaited their arrival, with growingimpatience. Without asking instruc- f 94/ Pioneering in Radio Telephony 29
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ST. SIMONS ISLAND RECEIVER The improvised masts, and the apparatus shack in the distance, are shown in this picture tions from New York, Mills furtherillustrated the formula: Find a way—or make one! Buying a numberof beams and planks from a locallumberman, these telephone men setsix thirty-foot beams in the marsh, sothat their ends projected about tenfeet from the ground. To the top ofeach of these, two planks were bolted,one being about twice the length ofthe other. This staggered arrange-ment made possible the progressiveraising and bolting of new sections ofplanks and beams, each slightlysmaller than the last, so that when thestructure was completed, it was ta-pered. When properly guyed, thisimprovised line of radio masts, withthe antenna which they supported,was quite adequate to the purpose forwhich it was intended. Incidentally,they prompted no end of speculationon the part of the natives of St.Simons as to just what they were for.Mills recalls that he was supposed by some of

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