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Identifier: belltelephonemag00vol2930amerrich (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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I have just stated, Since the end of the war, we haveadded 12 million telephones. To in- is to provide the most and the best stall these telephones, and provide the wires, cables, switch-boards, and central of-fice buildings requiredto interconnect them,we have spent aboutfive billion dollars.This has made it neces-sary to obtain overthree and a half billiondollars of new capitalfrom the investmentmarket, representingthe greatest financialeffort of its kind in thehistory of Americancorporate enterprise. Recognizing that theinstallation of 12 mil-lion telephones was notenough in itself, wehave been pushing vig-orously toward the goalof furnishing the bestpossible service. BellSystem service has im-proved greatly since thewrar, and is now betterin quality and speedthan ever before. Nev-ertheless, new items oftelephone equipmentare being installed, or Operator dialing of toll calls has been extended to about are )mder te.st °r arfone third of our intercity business on the drawing board,
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195° The Telephone in the American Scene 95 which promise evengreater convenience anddependability for thetelephone user. Aboutthree-quarters of ourtelephones are nowdial; a new handsettelephone now undertest has even betterhearing and speakingqualities than those nowin use; the operatordialing of toll calls hasbeen extended to aboutone-third of our inter-city business. Some of our new as-semblies of central of-fice equipment are mar-vels of electrical inge-nuity, using the latestdevelopments in theelectronic field. Forexample, in one type ofcentral switching office,when a dialed call is de-layed in getting throughbecause of some me-chanical trouble, the equipment locates the difficulty, pany, which manufactures telephonepunches holes in a special card to tell apparatus, purchases supplies, and in-the story, rings a bell, and drops the stalls central-office equipment. Goodcard in a box for a repairman. An- telephone service at low cost is not

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