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Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (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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g program, wanted assist-ance through use of Bell System tech-nical schools, in training soldiers tobecome installers, splicers, repairmen,and teletypewriter maintenance men.Hundreds have already been trainedand plans have been completed forcontinuous training at a rate of about5,000 per year. Experts of the Bell Telephone Lab-oratories are conducting a continuousschool for Army and Navy men inthe operation and maintenance of cer-tain new radio protective equipmentand other complex electrical equip-ment essential to mechanized warfare. The overseas radio stations of theSystem are proving of great value tothe Government. Not only have theyprovided continuous means of com-munication between the United Statesand its representatives in far distantlands but, at the request of the Gov-ernment, arrangements have beencompleted to convert some of themto special communication purposes forthe War Department and otherbranches of the Government. /P42 War Activities of the Bell Telephone System 221
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ACMK NrW<;PHOTO A Filter Board of the Armys Aircraft Warning SystemDeveloped in co-operation with the Signal Corps before the outbreak of war, and modified byIhe experience of the British, the system is in operation day and night throughout the country.Flash calls from volunteer aircraft observers reach these women, also volunteers, in an average of about 30 seconds JjEFORE and since Pearl Harbor theengineers and scientists of the Systemhave been continuously at work indeveloping new communication facili-ties and services of especial interestand necessity to the armed forces. Inaddition, the Bell Laboratories is en-gaged, for the Army and Navy, in thedevelopment of new tools of warfareinvolving communication techniques.Most of this work is secret and cannotbe discussed until after the war; butit can be said that all available re-sources of the Bell Telephone Labora-tories are now devoted to these andrelated purposes. The Western Electric Companylikewise is now devoting almost allof

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