Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14752827651)

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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of hisresponsibilities, the field engineer re-lied on their comprehensive coverage,in concise, accurate terms, of a greatvariety of apparatus, systems, andtheory. Containing circuit and assemblydrawings as well as illustrations de- scribing 67 different equipments andsystems, they form a complete refer-ence in miniature to the apparatusand its proper operation and mainte-nance, prepared with a special regardfor the particular needs of the engi-neer in the field. Throughout the war, these bulle-tins were kept up-to-the-minute, re-flecting all changes and modificationsin existing equipments immediatelyand keeping abreast of the initial ap-pearances of new equipment and sys-tems as they were introduced. By early 1945, there were nearly30 experienced field engineers as-signed to the writing, editing, and More than half of the workingtime of the Western Electricfield engineers was occupied inthe instruction of Armed Forcespersonnel detailed to radar duty. 70 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING
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S: Standing in front of the jeep is one of the i8 Bell System engineers who worked onmilitary communications in the European Theater as members of the Western Electric field engineering force modifying of the technical bulletinsand miscellaneous manuals which fieldengineers and Service personnel alikefound invaluable in their work. Em-bracing 20,500 pages of a specialsmall size compiled into neatly boundloose-leaf volumes, each from two tothree inches thick, more than a scoreof these have been published for theguidance of the Field EngineeringForce. Perhaps in no other respectwas the experience of ERPI so strik-ingly apparent as in the conceptionand preparation of these bulletins,which served at once as authoritativeinstruction manuals and as referenceworks. Somewhere between the glamourand diversity of the overseas field en-gineering assignment and the steadybasic work in domestic locations come the activities of the field test group. The group was organized in 1942,at the suggestion