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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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ompanies in the past few years, theSystem could not have continued toexpand and improve the telephoneplant and kept serviceat its high level despitethe adverse effects ofinflation on Bell Systemearnings. JVesfern Rlectric Isin the Thick of It While WesternElectric has not beenalone, this matter oflogistics has put itsquarely in the middleof things. Lets take aroving look at a few ex-amples of what hasbeen done on a broadscale throughout West-ern Electric since 1946to reduce costs and stepup efliciency in the sup-ply end of the telephonebusiness. Take copper-cladsteel wire, for instance.Thats the conductor in-side the drop thatruns from your houseto the nearest telephonepole. Thats the wirethat Western produced worked out a process for producinga superior wire at a lower cost perfoot. Result was wire with the abil-ity to support a heavier load of ice,and not only stronger than the oldtype but smaller in diameter, and soneeding less insulating material.In this new process, high-tensile-
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The 2,200 mayiila file folders hi this pile would be neededto contain the records of the 2,200 cost-reduction caseshandled by Western Rlectric manufacturing oigineerssince ig^o. Each case represents a method of loweringcost and increasi?ig efiiciency of Westerns tools, methods,and manufacturing processes 172 Bell Telephone Magazine AUTUMN strength steel wire—tougher than theInner core of the old-type drop wire—enters two huge machines engi-neered to operate around the clock,each handling 25 wires simultane-ously running through the process inone continuous operation. As thewire passes without pause from sup-ply spool to final take-up reel atWesterns Point Breeze Works, the machines clean the steel wire and ap-ply by electric current, without inter-ruption, successive coatings of copper,lead, and brass. Controls functionautomatically to produce wires of uni-form conductivity with a minimumuse of these metals. But thats only one chapter inthis story of achievement. Old-styledrop wir

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