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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (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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t new things ofevery kind. He called It a medium of suggestion and a recordof progress, and those words have appeared on the first pageof every issue since that day. This publication has tried to keep pace with what is still ayoung, active, and progressive organization. The succession ofcover designs illustrated at the left may perhaps suggest that therehas also been editorial progress within them. Indeed, the namewas changed from Quarterly to Magazine in 1941 as morerepresentative of its broadening interests. The motto Mr. Thayer bestowed upon us thirty years ago hasdone good service. We have recorded and described Bell Systemprogress of many kinds, and that in itself has made the publica-tion a medium which suggests how forward-looking is the organi-zation, how manifold are Its contributions to the life of our na-tion, and how Important Is the work of every one of us. ThisMagazine hopes, therefore, to continue to serve as A Medium of Siiyycstion and a Record of Progress. The Editors
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The main radio telephone transmitting station at Lawrenceville, N. J., seen through aframework of transmission lines leading to the various antennas A Single Link between New York and London Has Grown In a Quarter Century to Connections with Ninety Countries And Territories Which Handled 900,000 Calls in 1951 Overseas Telephone ServiceIs Twenty-five Years Old Henry T. KilUngsworth The Silver Anniversary of theBell Systems overseas telephoneservice occurred on January 7, 1952.since that day twenty-five years agowhen New York and London werefirst connected by voice for commer-cial telephone service, this service hasspread to the farthest reaches of theglobe, and now is available to al-most all the telephones in the world.Only 2,300 overseas connectionswere made in 1927, but in the twenty-four ensuing years this annual usagehas increased until 900,000 calls wereestablished during 1951 with the 90other countries and territories nowreached by the service. Many people are inclined still tot

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