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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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ned with Program TransmissionService. VANCE OATHOUT Plant and Commercial assignments, Iowa Telephone Company, 1903-1913.Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Division Supervisor of Traffic,1913-1916; Division Superintendent of Traffic, 1916-1925; Engineer ofPlant Extensions, 1925-1927. Chief Engineer, Indiana Bell Telephone Com-pany, 192 7- C. S. VAN CISE Williams College, B.A., 1914. New York Telephone Company, AccountingDepartment, 1914-1919. Bonbright and Company, bankers. New York,1919-1920. American Telephone and Telegraph Company, ComptrollersDepartment, and later Treasury Department, 1921; Assistant Treasurer,1923-; also Vice President, Bell Telephone Securities Company, 1929-. ELAM MILLER Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, Plant Engineering, 1902-1911;General Commercial Engineer, 1911-1912. American Telephone and Tele-graph Company, 1912-. Since coming to New York, Mr. Miller has beenengaged in various engineering capacities on the General Staff, and is nowStaff Engineer.
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A Section of thk Telephone Companys Main Switching Office in Chicago.Here, in the course of a week, as many as 600 switching operations take place inrouting radio profirams, as explained in the article which begins on the opposite page. Network Broadcasting I. Historical Summary EARLY in the development of radio telephony it becameapparent that it was ideally suited for what might be calledwholesale communication—that is, for the broadcasting of en-tertainment and of educational or informative matter. Thistype of communication was essentially new. Signal fires,columns of smoke, the beating of a drum or the blowing of atrumpet had been used, it is true, for the general disseminationof information, but with such exceptions as these practicallyall previous forms of communication—whether by sign, sig-nal, written message, telegraph, wire telephony or otherwise—were intended for use in what may be called person-to-personor point-to-point transmission of intelligence. The first exten-

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