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Identifier: belltelephonemag26amerrich (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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ere the telephone During this period and for the fol- was born, and from loi Milk Street, lowing eleven years he also served 141 Pearl Street, 127 Purchase as a consultant for many other firms, Street, 42 Farnsworth Street, and 19 1947 Hammond V. Hayes 171 Oliver Street where theMechanical Departmentand its successor organi-zations carried on itswork while Mr. Hayeswas at its iiead. Although housed inhumble quarters and witha comparatively smallstaff by present-daystandards, the researchand development organi-zation directed by Mr.Hayes from 1885 to1907 was, as has beenindicated earlier, theforerunner of the pres-ent Bell Telephone Lab-oratories in both func-tion and purpose. In a way, the tele-phone itself was a prod-uct of a developmentlaboratory—but with adifference. Bell and I Watson, struggling withthe problems of the tele-phone m a small^ room m j-^^ common battery switchboard installed at Lexington, I Williams machine shop Mass., in i8gj—the first common battery switchboard
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at 109 Court Street, Boston, were isolated workers seeking the solution of a single problem. To a large extent, both were practical inventors; they were not carrying on research, nor were they, in the usual sense of the used commercially which future improvementsdepend. Mr. Hayes was eminentlyto carry on work of this type, might suitedOne word, developing. When Mr. Hayes of his Boston associates, in close con-took over the recently formed Me- tact with him for a number of years,chanical Department, however, the spoke of him thus : A man of meanstelephone was already in practical and culture, representative of the bestuse; what was badly needed was the New England traditions, he was atdevelopment of circuits, apparatus, once a scholarly scientist and an en-and systems that would improve the thusiastic leader of his small bandservice and extend its scope. Re- of technical workers. And he addedsearch was also needed to disclose that: Distinguished for sincerity,hidden relationships and l

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