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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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T. andDr. Herbert E. Ives of Bell laboratories, both now re-tired, take part in an early-day television demonstration 72 Bell Telephone Magazine SUMMER works; and for networks linking of additional materials, devices, and Army, Navy, and Air Force instal-lations throughout the country. Thetelephone companies at the presenttime are providing private lines aloneaggregating 500,000 miles of cir-cuits. The variety and extent of useare rapidly increasing. It is a fortunate thing for thiscountry that the great growth of tele-phone communication has resulted ina vast network of telephone lines andinstallations throughout the countrywhich can quickly be arranged to takecare of the new defense requirementsof the nation. It is also fortunatethat the flexibility of the telephonesystem is such that a wide range ofnew services needed for the defenseagencies can be developed and placedin operation in short order. The Far Horizon All of these factors—a trend tolower relative costs; the development
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Inscription on the Archives Building facilities; and the development ofneeds of the telephone-using public—combine to stimulate the continuedrapid growth of the telephone sys-tem. However, they would not ofthemselves have automatically re-sulted in the great growth and de-velopment which has taken place.This is also due in some part to theform of organization of the BellTelephone group of companies. In the Bell Telephone group aregathered together, in a closely co-operating group of companies, all ofthe necessary functions for givingtelephone service, from the inceptionof an idea or birth of a need, throughthe stages of research, invention, de-velopment, trial, manufacture, con-struction, maintenance, and opera-tion, to the rendering of the serviceitself. This wise form of organiza-tion gives maximum effectiveness tothe initiative and resourcefulness ofmanagement and staff in expanding,developing, and strengthening thetelephone service. It is a large fac-tor in the high level of dev

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