File:H. E. Shreeve in 1915 Bell telephone magazine (1941) (14776007753).jpg

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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1941 (1940s)
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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express car reserved for the shipment and saw them safely aboard. This completed my contribution to the Arlington demonstration. Twelve to fourteen tubes, connected in parallel, had been used in the trans-mission to Wilmington and St. Simons Island. It was recognized that more tubes would be required if speech was to be sent over the vastly greater distances now contemplated. Before Paris and Honolulu were reached,after months of effort, 550 of these tubes had been installed in banks at the Arlington station, filling practically every nook and corner of the little building which the Bell System men had erected at the base of the tower to house their apparatus. Pioneers in More than Name FREQUENTLY these tubes would be-come overloaded and explode with a bang and a crash of broken glass,falling into the air-blowers that were installed below them to keep the tubes from becoming too hot. Now and then an engineer would inadvertently get his knuckles in the way of the 32 Bell Telephone Magazine FEBRUARY
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H. E. Shreeve in 1915 It was he who heard, in Paris on October 21, the words transmitted from Arlington, Va. blades of the blower fans, with most unpleasant results. On at least one occasion, one of the men in charge at Arlington received more voltage than any human form could absorb without serious discomfort, not to say danger. They were pioneers in more than name, these young men who blazed the trail for modern radio telephony. They did things of necessity the hard way. Nor was the task of those who had been sent out to listen for the speech which their associates were to transmit from Arlington a job for what Thomas Paine described as sunshine patriots. At their distant listening posts they waited, like sentries as-signed to patrol a given post, for something to happen that, it must have seemed to them, never would happen. Most of them reached the points to which they had been assigned early in June, 1915. The earliest of them to report the reception of speech from Arlington was R. H.Wilson

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