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Identifier: belltelephonemag22amerrich (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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ut the world. By any yardstick, its wartime jobIs the gravest responsibility of theCompanys industrial career. In arecent telegram addressed to the em-ployees. Major General H. C. Ingles,newly appointed Chief Signal Officerof the Army of the United States,said: Communications equipment youmake is needed to bring victory onevery fighting front. Radio madepossible the landing on Attn whendense fog hid even the water fromthe decks of ships. In the South-west Pacific, soldiers call the tele-phone a life or death necessity. In 1943 AlloMarocr 153 the jungle, Army Air Forces warn-ing-net teams, using radio, are mak-ing India virtually proof against sur-prise Jap attacks, and in Tunisia aportable radio station guided dam-aged American planes safely to thenearest airfield. Performance of allcommunication equipment in combat tions equipment produced in theUnited States for war has come offits assembly lines. Preparations in 1938 This war story may well beginwith the blustery December day, back
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Crystals used to stabilize frequencies in military radios are silver plated during the fine process of manufacture. Here a woman war worker in Western Electrics Hawthorne Works inserts a tray of crystal blanks in a silver-plating machine developed by Bell Laboratories engineers depends largely on the workmanshipof the men and women who produceit. The army relies on you for thebest. To the full extent of its resources,the Company is trying to meet thatresponsibility. Thus far, more than one third ofall the electronic and commimica- in 1938, when the manager of theCompanys Specialty Products Di-vision strode into a drab oflice of theold Munitions Building of the WarDepartment in Washington and ex-pectantly opened an empty, batteredsuitcase. Are they ready, Colonel? he in-quired. 154 Bell Telephone Magazine SEPTEMBER Less than twenty-four hours earlier,the Colonel had asked Western Elec-tric to undertake the manufacture ofCommand Sets in great number.This instrument is a specialized radi

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