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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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Among the principals in the Bell Centennial Telephone Hour broadcast were (/. tov.): Raymond Massey, the narrator; President Walter S. Giford of A. T. ^ T.;Miss Helen Traubely soprano; and Donald Voorhees, conductor of the Bell Tele-phone Orchestra and Chorus 778 telephones in use. A staggering (sound of hand crank bell) figure for the time, you can be sure! In the early telephone exchanges, There were still the doubters and when youd put in a call, there was scoffers, but some said the telephone no charming young lady operator at thing was here to stay! And, in the other end, but . . .1878 the first commercial telephone Operator i (boy) switchboard was put mto operation in New Haven, Connecticut, with What do jo« want!eight lines and twenty-one subscrib- (playful MUSIC CHORD) ers. But there were problems. Like Narrator the calling apparatus. Nothing like Qr, a bit more conversationally—a bell at first. Someone just tapped a pencil on the diaphragm and if Operator 2 (boy) someone h

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