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Identifier: belltelephonemag00vol2930amerrich (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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centlyjoined (now at the bottom of theFlorida Straits), and on to Cuba. All went well. That critical mo-ment aboard ship, some five milesseaward from the tiny island of SandKey, just about 10:00 P.M. on Sun-day, April 30, had now become anhistoric occasion. The seven tele-phone men immediately joined theships captain and his staff, to toastthe years of laboratory development,the careful preparations, the skillfulshipboard operation, and particularlythe unique self-contained repeatersof the new submarine cable. Aboveall, they hailed the various groups—and especially the Bell Labora-tories men—so long engaged in bring-ing the first long deep-sea repeateredsubmarine cable project to successfulaccomplishment. This splicing episode was the finalchapter in a story of continuedgrowth in telephone communicationbetween the United States and Cuba:a tale involving research leading tovacuum tubes with a longer life thanhad ever been dreamed of before as New Voiceways under the Gulf Stream 103
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From the chartered Western Union cable ship Lord Kelvin close off shore at Havana,the landward end of one cable is being floated ashore bv means of empty oil drums well as the development of telephonerepeaters capable of carrying twodozen telephone conversations simul-taneously and of operating at thebottom of the ocean for years. Butlets go back to the beginning, andunfold the story of telephone com-munication with the island. The Earlier Cables Following World War I, the need for telephone connection between theUnited States and Cuba became ap-parent, and in 192 1 the first link wasestablished by completion of threesingle wire submarine cables betweenRev West and Havana. This under-taking was handled by the Cuban-American Telephone and TelegraphCompany as a joint venture of theAmerican Telephone and TelegraphCompany and the International Tele-phone and Telegraph Corporation.These voiceways under the GulfStream made possible the first di- rect connection between the tele-phones of th

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