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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the post is only part ofthe story, however. What about serv-ice to the post? Big new military es-tablishments are being built in thinlypopulated territory, often miles fromthe nearest town. And that may be asmall town, receiving telephone serv-ice through a switchboard ample forthe needs of its few residents but notoriginally engineered to handle thenumber of calls which will flow to andfrom a camp where the daily life and training of thousands of men are be-ing administered. In such case, thecentral office switchboard will have tobe enlarged, perhaps two or three fold.An addition to the building may benecessary. In more than one instance,an entire new central office has beencreated near the camp as the mostsatisfactory solution of the problem.Do a few open wires run past thesite of the proposed camp? Thosepoles should be carrying cable too bythe time the constructing Quarter-master and the contractors haveopened their field offices and are readyfor service, providing pairs later for
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FULL CO-OPERATION Signal Corps and Bell System men working on an Army cable close to the camp telephoneheadquarters in the background, where Western Electric has installed a multiple P.B.X.

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