Identifier: belltvol20elephonemag00amerrich (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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rvice which isnow being experienced should con-tinue, in the face of possible seriousshortages of essential materials, someground must be given somewhere. It may be worth noticing, in con-clusion, that were it not for the greattechnical progress made by the BellSystem in recent years, some of themost serious current telephone prob-lems would be infinitely more seriousthan they are. Thanks to cable car- rier systems and cable-laying plowtrains, it has been possible to increaselong distance telephone facilities at aspeed utterly impossible a few yearsago, under any circumstances what-ever. Thanks to the organization, re-sources and equipment of the System,the greatest demand in history has sofar been met, and met well, and incon-veniences to the public have been keptto a minimum. These facts are thebest assurance we have that whateverthe problems of the future may be,the nation can rely on the Bell Systemto meet them progressively, and in amanner that will well serve the publicinterest.
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ENGINEERING THE TRANSCONTINENTALTELEPHONE CABLE This Major Project, Largest Single Undertaking Since the Building of the First Transcontinental Line, Will Join the Eastern and Western Toll Cable Networks by Underground Circuits By HORACE H. NANCE W ESTWARD across the plainsof Nebraska and themountains of Wyoming,where a hundred years ago endlessherds of buffalo looked up in surpriseat the creaking covered wagons of thepioneers, a strange sprawling caravanis grumbling and growling on its wayfrom Omaha to the Pacific coast.The buffaloes and the wagons havelong since disappeared, but this cara-van again typifies the spirit of thepioneer. The trail it is following isto become a safer super-highway oftranscontinental speech. This caravan is a ponderous steeltrain of Diesel-poWered caterpillartractors, rooter, plow, and trailers;nine pieces of massive machinery, 275feet long, weighing more than 100tons. In one continuous operation itis cutting a narrow slit some thirtyinches deep in the gro

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