Identifier: belltelephonemag15amerrich (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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Telephone & Telegraph Company, and wasmarked by many features that showed how the modern tele-phone art has enlarged the scope of mans voice. One of thesefeatures was a conversation among five widely separated indi-viduals. These participants were Miss Grace Moore in Hollywood,California; Admiral Cary Grayson, President of the AmericanRed Cross, in Washington, D. C; Dizzy Dean, the well-known member of the Cardinals baseball club, in St. Louis,Missouri; Dr. Karl T. Compton, President of the Massachu-setts Institute of Technology, in Boston; and Mr. RufusDawes, President of the Century of Progress Exposition, inChicago. With special telephone circuits functioning, forbroadcasting reasons, instead of the usual long distance circuits,the radio audience heard exactly what the five participantsheard as they chatted with each other regarding the significanceof the anniversary. But the practical significance of their talkas a program feature was the usefulness to the nation inherent 150
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A Group of Operators Handling a Long Distance Telephone Conference atConference Positions of the Long Distance Switchboard at 32 Sixth Avenue,New York City. GROWING USE OF TELEPHONE CONFERENCE SERVICE in long distance conference service as an agency of multi-pointintercommunication. To speculate on this usefulness one hasonly to think, first, of the web of wires ready to function aschannels of speech between any of more than 70,000 communi-ties in the United States, and second, of the myriad situationsarising in government, industry, agriculture or family lifewherein a common understanding among several individuals isneeded in the quickest possible time. The potential uses areas varied as the constantly changing needs and interests of thepeople. Actual uses already recorded indicate how mountainranges, prairies, deserts, and even oceans seem non-existent asbarriers to a meeting of minds when the conference servicecomes into play. The business stories are those of the im-proved efficie

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