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Identifier: belltelephonemag00vol2930amerrich (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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ich can * Information brought up to date since U.S.I.T.A. talk. 1951-52 Toll Dialing Is Expanding 259 be reached through the No. 4-typetoll crossbar or crossbar tandem in-stallations. The nearby direct dialing range ofEnglewood customers, who recentlyhave been able to dial all telephonesin northern New Jersey and NewYork City, was thus extended toinclude telephones in Westchester,Rockland, and Nassau counties andparts of Orange and Putnam coun-ties in New York. More impres-sively, these people are now able todial direct to telephones in the fol- lowing cities and many of their sub-urbs: Boston, Providence, Philadel-phia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit,Chicago, Milwaukee, Sacramento,Oakland, and San Francisco. The Englewood test climaxes yearsof development by Bell System re-search and operations engineers, andthe importance of the occasion wasmarked by ceremonies which includedthe dialing of a call by Mayor M.Leslie Denning of that city direct toMayor Frank P. Osborn of Ala-meda, Cal.
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The first customer-dialed long distance call in history spanned the nation in iS seconds on November 10 when Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood reached Mayor Frank P. Osborn of Alameda, Califs with 10 quick pulls on a telephone dial. Telephone people, public officials and civic leaders, and newspaper men looked on i6o Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER erators. About halfof these are short-haultoll calls betweennearby points, and theother half are longercalls between toll cen-ters. There are step-by-step networks in vari-ous parts of the coun-try, and most of theseare now connected to-gether through tollcrossbar switching sys-tems. Since the planningfor a major installa-tion, such as one ofthe toll crossbar sys-tems, must be startedseveral years in ad-vance of the servicedate, the first of thepost-war installationsof this type did notgo into service untilNovember 28, 1948.It is far too early, of course, to This was at New York, and a similar

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