Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14569373738)

Identifier: bellvol25telephonemag00amerrich (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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ipment which had long beenused in Morse and teletype service.And, of course, there were the famil-iar teletype machines, used through-out the nation for Twx and privateline service. To these basic ingredients, a few-simple but highly important additionshad been made. The result was a novel communications system whichovercame to an almost unbelievableextent the effects of fading, static,and interference. Demonstrating the System Within a few weeks the develop-ment work had reached the stagewhere success seemed certain, andBrigadier General Frank E. Stoner,Chief of the Army CommunicationsService (later a Major General andAssistant Chief Signal Officer), wasinvited to inspect the experimentalsystem. His reaction was not onlyfavorable but enthusiastic, and he re-quested that a plan for the use ofthe system in the Army be submittedfor consideration. This plan, which was promptly fur-nished, proposed that the Long LinesDepartment provide the radio andcarrier facilities in the United States,

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Overseas radio receiving equipment in California. Long Lines provided the radio statio)is ajid the chatniels to the Signal Cotters i)i IVashijigtoji and San Fra)icisco^ ivhile the Aruiy enjoyed full operational coiitrol of the niovenieiit of its traffic 1946 Command Circuits 107 together with wire line telegraphchannels between the Long Lines ra-dio stations and the Army SignalCenters in Washington and San Fran-cisco, and that the Signal Corps pur-chase corresponding equipment fromWestern Electric for installation atArmy headquarters overseas. Thus,the Army would have full operationalcontrol over the movement of traffic,sending and receiving all messageswith its own personnel in the WarDepartment; yet it would be relievedof the necessity of building radio sta-tions in the United States, and expertcivilians would take the place ofArmy radio technicians, releasingthem for duty elsewhere. It was further proposed that serv-ice be established at a very early datebetween Washington and Euro

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