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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
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es of the proper quality and in sufficient quantities for the purposes of the experiments was assigned to O. E. Buckley. Concentrating on various phases of this preliminary work were B. W. Kendall,W. Wilson, C. R. Englund and others.When the actual work of radio transmission and reception began, many of these men did duty in the field, at first at Montauk, Wilmington and St. Simons Island and later at Arlington,Panama, San Francisco, San Diego, or Honolulu, as did others, including John Mills, B. B. Webb, H. W. Everitt, Lloyd Espenschied, H. E. Shreeve and A. M. Curtis. Nearly All Still in Service Indicative of the rapidity with which radio telephony has been developed—and of the youth of the men who were responsible for this development in its early stages—is the fact that, with the exceptions of Carty and Arnold, the men who played prominent parts in the experiments of 1915 are still living. A few, like Colpitts and Shreeve, have retired from active ... 1941 Pioneering in Radio Telephony page 25
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Group at Montauk Point, L. I., on APRIL 4, 1915 Left to right: Messrs. Christopher, Arnold, Blackwell, Mills, Jewett, Carson, Robert A. Millikan, Espenschied, Carty, Col. Samuel Reber, Thurber, Scribner, and Gherardi ... service. Van der Bijl was for some years Director of Research and Chairman of the Power Authority of the Union of South Africa, where he is now Director General of War Supplies. The remaining members of the group are still actively engaged in the research and experimental work of the Bell System. The youth of these men—and their lack of practical experience with the radio art—is one of the features that first and most forcibly impresses one who reads their accounts of their experiences. Thus Buckley had become an employee of the Bell System in July, 1914, and had been in the lab-oratories less than a year when he was precipitated headlong into production and tests of the power tubes which were to be used in attempting to trans-mit the voice through space across the Atlantic and wid

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