Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14754002934)

Identifier: belltelephone6667mag00amerrich (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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5 pecent of the cost reductions were in connection with research and development worldone on Nike-X projects. Since 1963 wheiits cost reduction efforts came under ;formal cost reduction program inauguratecby the Department of Defense for all its contractors. Western has listed savings totalling$85.8 million. Sales to the Bell System were up 9.5 pecent to $2.8 billion, almost 85 per cent ototal sales. Sales to the Federal governmenamounted to $469 million, down from $49Cmillion in 1964. W.E. earned $168.3 millionor five cents per dollar of sales, comparecwith $152.8 million (4.9 cents) in 1964. The most radical change in W.E.s manufacturing operations during 1965, as for someyears past, sprang from the Bell Systemscommitment to electronic switching. Production of equipment for electronic central offices continued to climb. Nearly a million Touch-Tone® telephonesand more than 400,000 of the new TrimlineCit; telephones were among the 9,176.00Csets manufactured during the year. Produc 56
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New Trimline lelephone sets poured off Western Electric assembly liites during 1965 astelephone production crossed the nine million mark for the first time in W.E.s history. tion of a limited quantity of special equip-ment for an industrial trial of PICTURE-PHONE see-while-you-talk service was alsoicompleted. Western Electric bought goods and serv-\ce% from more than 400,000 other busi-nesses in 1965, with these purchasesamounting to $1.4 billion—a total surpass-ing any previous year. Ninety per cent ofthese suppliers were small businesses. Medical Data Transmission )■ The idea of a doctor entering his pa-tients home and within moments send-ing the patients electronic characteristics toa central point for expert analysis maysound like science fiction, but it is now areality. Three new DATA-PHONE data setshave been developed to permit medical per-sonnel to send electrocardiographic signalsand similar data over the public telephonenetwork. Two data transmitters are available: the603