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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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he tells. It is some measure of hisability as author that he makes a read-able yarn out of it. The writing is uneven, and the pacelags in places. The book is based on fact,but Ned Ellsberg is not one to let a storysuffer for lack of lively telling—and any-way, exaggeration is to be forgiven in aman who actually does the heroic deedsothers only read about. His ideas aboutthe charges for overseas service are wayout of line, for example, and a little re-search at the Long Lines Department re-veals that not one overseas operator butseven worked on his call before it was com-pleted. He hasnt much use for Britishways of doing things, and some of his com-ments on this score seem unnecessarilycaustic. But telephone readers will find noexaggeration in his observation, after com-pleting a swiftly handled call from South-west Harbor, Maine, to George Ankersin Suquamish: There might be something,I thought, to private enterprise after all, ifwhat it produced was companies likeA. T. k T. J. s. B.
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I C5 o ■^ 176 More than Forty-four Years of Bell System Experience Have Contributed To This Exposition of the Scope and the Problems of Telephone Engineering Engineering Bell Telephone Plant James J. Pilliod Engineering has sometimes beendefined as a profession that can maketwo blades of grass grow where onegrew before, a sort of one gets youtwo process of the kind that hasbeen much sought after by men in allages. But in this electronic age, tele-phone engineers do better than that.For they get i6 or more telephonecircuits with one pair of aerial wires,and coaxial cable systems are beingtried out that produce 1800 circuitson a pair of copper tubes about thesize of a pencil. A vast amount of work broadlyclassified as Engineering has goneinto the building and operation ofthe telephone plant owned by theBell Telephone Companies. Forthree quarters of a century this hasbeen an important part of the ac-tivities of these Companies—fromthe invention of the telephone in1876 to the present

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