Identifier: belltvol20elephonemag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1941 (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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nsation, to put it mildly! Thesesentries of science might have recalledthe words of Milton: They also servewho only stand and wait. But atmospheric conditions weregetting better; and improvements inthe transmitting apparatus, increasedpower, modifications in the receivingequipment, and skilled and patient at-tention to details at the Arlingtontransmitter and at all listening pointsgradually resulted in success. Espenschied, at Honolulu, hadgiven another demonstration of mak-ing a way when one could not befound. He had received permissionto connect his receiving apparatus tothe radio telegraph station in down-town Honolulu, On all sides of thenaval base ran electric light and powerwires, and he surmised—and on ex-periment proved—that these wouldseriously interfere with reception.But he found, at the Pearl HarborNaval Reservation, then under con-struction some distance from the cityproper, conditions that were morefavorable. So between a water tank,a power house chimney, and a steel
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B. B. Webb lt was his voice that Shreeve heard in Paris. Note the high-quality microphone, 1915 version, used in transmission from Arlington building he strung his antenna, installed his apparatus in part of a small shack used by naval engineers as an office, and went to work at his job of listening. Incidentally, he had an opportunity to demonstrate anew hisability at climbing, of which he hadmade use at Montauk, for he himselfhad to mount the power house chim-ney in order to get his aerial in place. A Job Requiring Diplomacy i HE job assigned to these listenersat their distant outposts was one re-quiring qualities that would havefitted them for the diplomatic corps.For obvious reasons, the whole proj-ect was undertaken with considerablesecrecy. It was distinctly not in-tended that publicity should be givento the enterprise until it had reached 34 Bell Telephone Magazine FEBRUARY a satisfactory conclusion. On thispoint it may perhaps be of interest torecord that the good people of Hon

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