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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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e Bell Systemcontinues to save over 400,000 poundsof tin a year. During the day, the installer inKnoxville has been saving the endsof wire, clamps, and hardware thathe has removed, and dropping theminto his material bag. The cablesplicer in Albany has an old leadsleeve and some small pieces of cablesheath. The equipment maintenanceman in Wright City has replacedthree worn-out vacuum tubes. The teletypewriter repairman at El Pasohas a few broken and worn parts.The mechanic in the Hawthorne fac-tory has gathered up some brass cut-tings. All over the country, telephonepeople are recovering and collectingthese pieces of scrap. Most of themare so little that they seem insignifi-cant—except that they shouldnt beleft to litter up the Companys or cus-tomers premises. But these hun-dreds of thousands of little trickles ofscrap help to make up the flood—350,000 pounds per day—that flowsinto the Western Electric Companysscrap recovery plant on Staten Island,the Nassau Smelting and Refining
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Junked copper line wire goes into a smelter in the Western Electric Company s recoveryplant, and will find its way again into the manu/acturejof telephone equipment 196 Bell Telephone Magazine Company. In this plant, experts sortout and reclaim all of the re-usablematerials in the scrap returned. Itis fed into furnaces and refined intobasic metals for making new tele-phone equipment. It is a real help. About one-seventh of the copper used byWestern Electrics factories in 1950,35,000,000 pounds of lead and ap-proximately 100,000 pounds of nickeland nickel alloys, came from Nassau.Added to this, almost 2,250,000pounds of nickel and nickel alloyswere recovered from cuttings andfilings at the factories, and 780,000pounds of aluminum and 41,000,000pounds of iron and steel were pumpedback into the raw material marketunder Nassau-established contractswith local smelters—all of whichcame out of the flood of scrap sentin by people all over the Bell System. A GROUP OF engineers from theAmeric

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