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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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are to plan their work in con-formity with the war-time situation. The Pioneers Associationin the Years to Come It is evident that there will be nolack of potential members of the Pio-neers Association in the years tocome. For many years there will be 1943 The Telephone Pioneers of America 137 an increasing number of eligibles be-cause of the force additions preced-ing the last depression. And the factthat the nation is at war does notseem to act as a deterrent to joiningthe Pioneers. During 1942, 7,190new members were added, a largernumber than in any previous yearexcept 1941, when there was anespecial emphasis on increase in mem-bership. whole extent of the country today?It is to you that this great develop-ment is due. When the telephones inventorspoke these modest words, trans-continental telephony was but a hopein the minds of the telephones scien-tists and engineers, and todays sys-tem of 24,000,000 interconnectedtelephones was not even a dream.Radio telephony was an unborn art.
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Old telephone equipment lends interest to this lounge and ante-room of theoffice of Theodore N. Vail Chapter in Chicago And all who may join the Associa-tion in 1943 and in the years to comeneed have no doubts as to the con-tinuing appropriateness of the termPioneer. Let them recall Dr.Bells address at the first meeting ofthe Association in 1911: You haveall gone so far beyond me! Why,the little system that I look backupon—what is it compared to themighty system that goes through the Magnificent accomplishments in re-search, in apparatus design, in sys-tems of transmission, in manufactur-ing technique, in operating methodswere to mark the coming years andgive to the telephone men and womenof today an instrumentality of servicealmost beyond the conception of theearly pioneer. Yet, as Walt Whitman has writ-ten: It is provided in the essence of 138 Bell Telephone Magazine things that from any fruition of sue- of all men and women who carry cess, no matter what, shall come on and carry

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