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Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1942 (1940s)
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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pecially designed facilities. The aircraft warning system, as itexists today, might almost be said tobe a joint achievement of the ArmyAir Force Interceptor Commands andthe Bell System. The leadership isthe Armys, obviously. Working withthe Interceptor Commands, executingand also contributing during trials, tests, and maneuvers, have been theBell Telephone Laboratories, whichhave designed and adapted circuitsand equipment for special purposes;the Western Electric Company, whichmakes what the Laboratories design;the Systems operating telephone com-panies, and independent telephonecompanies as well, which train theiroperating personnel and make neces-sary arrangements of the physical fa-cilities; the Long Lines Department,which provides and assigns the inter-city circuits and also must train thoseconcerned with their use for such pur-poses; and the staff of the A. T. and T.Company, by whom the Systems obli-gation in its broad aspect is correlated. i9U2 Telephone Lines and Air Defense 15
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Ai\ Alii Raid WarnIiNG Switciibuauu Through switchboard positions such as that shown in the foreground, the C. A. R. W. officer at each Army Information Center notifies designated civilian district warning centers of the approach of enemy planes. Note that there is a group of four jacks for each warning center: three to report differing degrees of danger, and the fourth to transmit the all clear The Determining Factor io summarize and conclude thisdiscussion of the aircraft warning sys-tem, it is perhaps appropriate to quotefrom a broadcast made from an Inter-ceptor Command information centerby a military commentator not longago: This is essentially the same warn-ing and interception system that theBritish have used in interdicting largesections of their island to enemybombers. The systems were devel-oped independently, and we are adapt-ing British methods to our own use,while we pass on to them whatever wehave discovered that they dont al-ready know. The difference between our system

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