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Identifier: belltelephonemag13amerrich (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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ember 18, 1930. 83 BELL TELEPHONE QUARTERLY is listening in San Francisco has not been carried across thecontinent by radio. But it is also quite possible that his in-formation on the point does not extend far beyond the vaguenotion that in some way that he does not understand, it isdone by telephone wires. And to John Smith, and millionslike him, a telephone wire is a telephone wire, and that is theend of the matter. But it is not the end of the matter for the engineers of theAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Company. They havelearned from long experience that the technical problems in-volved in the provision of circuits for the broadcasting net-works are quite different from those confronted in the provisionof commercial telephone service, with which the Bell Systemorganization has long been thoroughly familiar and for whichits plant and equipment have been designed. From the days when Alexander Graham Bell conducted thefirst of the experiments which led to his invention of the tele-
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On the Night Before the 1928 Presidental Election, Bell System Chain Broad-casting Circuits Served a Countrywide Line-up of Stations. 84 I NETWORK BRO.VDCASTING phone, he and his successors of the organization which bearshis name have been students of sound and of its electricaltransmission. When confronted with the problem of providingcircuits for network radio broadcasting, they knew, from morethan half a century of experience, that this problem involvedfactors not encountered in the provision of regular, commercialtelephone service. Telephone wires had, it is true, been used as early as 1877,the year following the invention of the telephone, for the trans-mission of music. In order to arouse public interest in thetelephone, Bell gave demonstrations or lectures in various citiesof the East, and one of the features of these was the transmis-sion of songs, cornet solos, cabinet organ and similar musicalselections from some outside point to the auditorium in whichthe lecture was held.

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