Identifier: belltelephonemag23amerrich (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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service forhimself and his family. Improvements in Service The Bell System companies pro-pose not only to make telephone ser-vice more readily available to allparts of the rural areas which theyserve, but also to continue their pro-gram of making the service betterand, as a consequence, more desirable.Originally, most rural telephonesused the magneto type of system, 224 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER In which the subscriber must turn a operator is heard by all subscribers crank to signal the operator. About connected to that line, and a code is three-fourths of the Systems rural used to indicate which subscriber is telepiiones now have the type of sig- to answer. Now well over half of naling used in cities, where the central these telephones have some form of office is signaled simply by lifting the selective signaling, whereby the rings tclepiione from its cradle. The com- of only a part of the people on the panics propose to extend this form of line are heard by any one subscriber.
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A TELEPHONE MAN sHows a group of interested farmers how to make a twisted-sleeve splice in their service-station line service systematically, for the mostpart replacing the old form of mag-neto service with dial service and forthe rest making available common-battery manual service. For years, most rural customerswere summoned to the telephone bywhat is known as code ringing. Inthis system, ringing on the line by an It is hoped after the war to extendthis use of selective ringing to sub-stantially all rural customers. The clearness of transmission onrural lines will continue to be im-proved. Much has already beendone by changing grounded circuitsto metallic circuits. The latest andmost efficient types of telephone 1944-45 ^ore and Better Telephone Service for Farmers ll!^ transmitters and receivers have beenintroduced in rural as well as in urbanservice as they have become available,and it is estimated that 60 percent ofrural telephones are already equipped Obtaining Basic Information

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