Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    From $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Telephone in America: Bell Telephone System
    The Telephone in America: Bell Telephone System
    The Telephone in America: Bell Telephone System
    Ebook84 pages33 minutes

    The Telephone in America: Bell Telephone System

    By Good Press

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    "The Telephone in America: Bell Telephone System" by Anonymous. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 5, 2021
    ISBN4066338072030
    The Telephone in America: Bell Telephone System

    Related to The Telephone in America

    Related ebooks

    Classics For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • UNLIMITED

      Connecting The World

      Nov 12, 2021

      Connecting The World
      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      My First ‘Cell’ Phone

      Jul 1, 2023

      My First ‘Cell’ Phone
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Payphones

      Apr 5, 2019

      Payphones
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Great British Switch-off

      Jun 10, 2021

      The Great British Switch-off
      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      RUN VoIP AT HOME

      Feb 10, 2022

      The landline is a true relic of a bygone age. The first British fixed telephones were installed way back in the 1870s, and now that almost everyone has a mobile phone, you might think there’s no more need for the traditional voice service. Yet many p

      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Keeping In Touch On The Road

      Sep 13, 2023

      Keeping In Touch On The Road
      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Mobiling

      Nov 1, 2019

      Mobiling
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      VHF Plus

      Dec 1, 2021

      VHF Plus
      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Emergency Communications

      Dec 1, 2021

      It may be ham radio heresy to say it out loud, but in the view of many, amateur radio is no longer on the front burner as a backup resource. There are several reasons for this, many having to do with improvements to the “regular” communication system

      11 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Can Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

      Nov 15, 2019

      Since the 1990s, when cell phones first became widely available in the United States, their use has increased dramatically. According to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, there were more than 400 million cell phone subscribers

      1 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Big Phone Switch-off

      Jan 9, 2024

      The Big Phone Switch-off
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Are You Affected?

      Oct 21, 2020

      Are You Affected?
      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Ditch Your LANDLINE

      Jan 4, 2023

      It’s nearly the end of the line for the UK’s telephone network. By December 2025, the ageing copper cables that let us make and receive phone calls at home will be permanently retired. In what BT is calling the Copper Switch Off, all analogue landlin

      16 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      How to Choose a TV Antenna

      Dec 4, 2017

      How to Choose a TV Antenna
      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      VoIP 2023

      May 11, 2023

      VoIP 2023
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Distant Connections

      Apr 5, 2019

      Distant Connections
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Spending Outlook

      Dec 5, 2024

      Spending Outlook
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Zero Bias: A Cq Editorial

      Apr 1, 2023

      Technical advances in amateur radio seem to follow a predictable pattern, one that’s been consistent for pretty much the past 100 years. We start with “the way it is” – currently popular bands, modes, and activities – along with a certain comfort lev

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Protecting Yourself Against 5g

      Mar 22, 2020

      Protecting Yourself Against 5g
      9 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Mobile Revolution

      Sep 7, 2022

      We’ve just rediscovered this classic brochure from the mid-1980s promoting the new Motorola Transportable Cellphone. It explained that you could “take this cellphone anywhere for use almost everywhere, in and out of vehicles”. Assuming you had the st

      1 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      A Personal Ham History

      Jan 1, 2020

      A Personal Ham History
      11 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      5 Ways to Bolster Your Means of Communications

      Apr 16, 2019

      Landline: Although many households have ditched their landlines, they’re still a viable way to communicate if cell towers were to go down. In addition, having a landline makes it easy for first responders to find you. Cell phone: Create a “In Case of

      1 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Watch This Space

      Apr 16, 2023

      Watch This Space
      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Phone Home

      Jun 25, 2020

      Phone Home
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      18 Years After Sept. 11, Critical Incidents Still Overload Emergency Radios

      Mar 12, 2018

      After the chaos of terrorist attacks, the U.S. spent billions to update first responder radio systems. But the newer gear can still be overwhelmed — as it was in the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.

      4 min read

    Reviews for The Telephone in America

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Telephone in America - Good Press

      Anonymous

      The Telephone in America: Bell Telephone System

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4066338072030

      Table of Contents

      The Telephone in America

      Behind Your Telephone

      In the telephone office

      Where the wires go

      Teamwork to serve you well

      Organized to Serve You

      Long Lines—When you call across the land

      When you call across the sea

      Radio and television networks

      Other Custom-tailored services

      General Staff services benefit all

      Out of the savings of the many

      Ideals and aims

      Research Improves Telephone Service

      A few milestones in research

      The Laboratories and national defense

      Service of Manufacture and Supply

      Evolution of an Industry

      A complex manufacturing job

      Supplies—when and where needed

      A national asset

      From Bell to Bell System

      The twang of a reed

      The telephone talks

      How the Bell System was formed

      The Future Holds Great Promise

      Your telephone is more valuable

      The goal—constantly improving service

      Story without an ending

      This radio-relay station on Buckhorn Mountain in Colorado is one of 107 in the Bell System’s transcontinental microwave system. Flashed from station to station, telephone calls and television programs first spanned the continent by air in 1951.

      The Telephone in America

      Table of Contents

      The telephone was born in America and has reached its highest development in this country. Since 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell first talked successfully over his primitive telephone, a network of voice highways has grown up throughout the nation, linking more than fifty-four million telephones. About four-fifths of these are owned by the Bell System, which is a group of closely associated telephone companies, a research and development organization and a manufacturing and supply company, all headed by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The other telephones are owned and operated by some 5,000 independent telephone companies and about 20,000 rural or farmer lines outside the Bell System but connecting with it.

      Bell telephone service is home town service. Linked with thousands of other home town services, it makes a neighborhood of the nation. The company that furnishes your service is part of your community. Its operators, installers and other representatives are your neighbors. Some may be your friends or relatives. Its departments are managed by your fellow citizens—men and women who have come up through the ranks.

      Nine out of every ten telephone calls handled by these home town people are local calls. The tenth call may go across the continent or across the ocean. But wherever the calls go, they travel by means of a marvelously ordered world of wires, cables, switchboards, dial equipment, radio and above all, with the help of people working together to serve the public.

      This booklet gives you a personal glimpse of that world. It tells the story of the Bell System, but it should

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1