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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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since there are millions of such oc-currences in the course of a year, theloss aggregates millions of dollars. For the last few years, increasinguse has been made of a smooth jack-eted wire which not only looks bet-ter but which can be applied to base-boards, walls, and other surfaceswith a hand-operated stapling ma-chine. This combination provides amore permanent as well as a more * Except when raceways within the structureprovide concealment for the wires. 1CI The installer is using a hand stapling machine to fasten jacketed inside wiring
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Pi oil tr; tin • (951 The Big Little Things 23 ittractive wiring installation, and its much more likely to be left in placevhen the telephone is disconnected.Die Bell System normally uses 800,-X)o,ooo conductor feet of inside wiren a year, and currently about half oft is of this jacketed type. What thisise of stronger wire and the tendency0 leave it in place mean in savings ofvire and labor is self-evident. On top of those advantages, theitronger wire and the tougher plasticacket give the installation increasednechanical strength and reduce wireroubles. The reduction in troubleslue to this new type of wire and newnethod of attaching can be expressedhus: a trouble rate in 1950 equiva-ent to the 1947 rate would haveneant about 600,000 more cases thanictually occurred last year of servicerailure and of consequent visits by•epairmcn. Transmitter and Receiver (HE GATEWAYS through which theubscribers voices enter and leavehe telephone network are the trans-nitter and the receiver. The t

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