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Identifier: belltelephonemag11amerrich (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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o the MiddleWest. The circuit layout charts tell more of a story than that whichrelates to the development of telephone service. It is notdifficult to read between their lines another story—the currenthistory of the American people: their economic and socialhabits; their political battles; the ebb and flow of their busi-ness; the sporting events that absorb their interest; theircarefree migrations to places where they find rest and recrea-tion; their periodic outbursts of unashamed sentiment. The Circuit Layout Group Maintenance of these records is one of the functions—butonly one—of a most important but little known branch of theLong Lines Department which is designated as the CircuitLayout Group. It may be well to review briefly the activitiesof this organization and to see how important a part it playsin enabling the greater organization which has come to beknown as the Bell System to perform its functions. As itsname implies, this group is responsible for engineering and 180
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