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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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ussionand practice, they had also caughtsomething of the spirit and traditionof our business. Now the initialtraining was over. It was time to goto work. John and his seven fellow studentsreturned to their installation fore-men. For the next couple of weeks,he went out with an experienced in-staller, watching, helping, gaining ex-perience. Soon came the day—andthe thrill of pride—when John re-ceived a truck of his own, and, in com-pany with his foreman, tackled hisfirst assignment. In the months that followed, hisforeman continued his on-the-jobtraining, following up,inspecting, and givingJohn instruction andhelp and encourage-ment, until he was sat-isfied that John was acompetent member ofthe Bell System team. Keeping Pace withProgress An important train-ing objective is to keeppace with the techno-logical changes and im-provements in the com-munications art. In abusiness such as this,where these are occur-ring almost continu-ously, it is very impor- 1953 Learning How To Do It 45
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These technicians are being coached at a regio)iat Plant school in the operation of the new Ni carrier system tant that there be people trained tomeet these situations. Advance prep-aration for a new development maybegin as early as three to five yearsbefore the first commercial installa-tion is placed in service. A typical example of this is the Nicarrier telephone system. The de-velopment of the system began in Sep-tember 1947, when Bell Laboratoriesengineers started to design a carriersystem for short-haul cable carrieroperation. It was to be used for dis-tances of 15 to 200 miles, capable ofbeing applied to exchange cable facili-ties, at a relatively low cost. Thefirst field trials were begun in July1948 on the Milwaukee-Madison ca-ble route in Wisconsin. These trialswere continued imtil January 1950,when development had been com- pleted and standard models of theequipment were being produced by theWestern Electric Company. Training entered the picture for-mally in May 1949, when

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