Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14732989726)
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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive
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UTHWEST PACIFICAREAS UNDER CONDITIONS WHICHWOULD NORMALLY HAVE MADE SUCHOPERATIONS IMPOSSIBLE. . . . These two were followed in 1944by many other field engineers whoworked with the China and India-based B-24 Squadrons, and with thebig new B-29S of the XX BomberCommand in the China-Burma-Indiatheatre and of the XXI BomberCommand in the Mariannas on Sai-pan, Tinian and Guam. Of thesemen, and of many other WesternElectric field engineers doing similarwork, Major-General O. P. Echolswrote to President Stoll, The Army 1946 Western Electric Experts with the Armed Forces 63 Air Forces regard these men as anindispensable element in the Ail-American team of fliers. A MOST EFFECTIVE WAY of showing the field engineer at work would beby montage movie photography. improve training for jungle combat.A field engineer on board the bat-tleship Indiana at an advance basein the Pacific teamed up with theships boatswain and, by working outan ingenious rigging system for re-placing a faulty Mark 8 antenna
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It served over Bikini, A Western Electric field engineer is making final adjustments on the radar scope camera aboard a B-29 which took part in the atomic-bomb test on June 30 While one field engineer was im-proving the pressurizing system ofhigh-altitude bombing radar equip-ment in India, another was on leavewith a National Defense ResearchCommittee project down in Panamarecording authentic jungle sounds to which weighed about one ton and wasmounted high up on its upper works,they saved the ship a long trip to anAustralian port. Incidentally, theirsuccess won $10,000 for their sup-porters among the crew, who hadwagered enthusiastically on whether 64 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING such an exchange could be effectedwithout resort to the large navy-yardcranes customarily used for such aheavy job. At about the same time, one of thisengineers colleagues, in associationwith naval personnel, conceived a re-arrangement of one of the fire con-trol radar systems which greatly im-proved distrib