Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14569776927)
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Identifier: belltelephonemag15amerrich (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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive
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ademy, 1918. U. S. Navy, 1917-23 (Lieutenant). Re-porter, Springfield Republican, 1924-1925; Newark Evening News, 1925-1927. Publicity Department, Long Lines Department, American Tele-phone and Telegraph Company, 1927-. W. C. F. FARNELL Cooper Union, B.S., 1906. Western Electric Company, ManufacturingDepartment, 1902-1908; Engineering Department, 1908-1925. Bell Tele-phone Laboratories, Inc., 1925-. In the Alanufacturing Department ofthe Western Electric Company, Mr. Farnell was in charge of Final In-spection in the New York Shop. In the Engineering Department, he hadcharge of various detail design activities at Hawthorne, and later super-vised the Engineering Information Department at New York. Since 1926Mr. Farnell has been Curator of the Bell System Historical Museum. K. FICK Hellerup Gymnasium, Copenhagen, Denmark, B.A., 1916; University ofCopenhagen, Cand.Ph., 1918. Danish Government Service, 1918-1924.American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Chief Statisticians Divi-sion, 1925-
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Telephony—Child of Organized Scientific Research Editors Note: Following is part of an address by Dr. Frank B. Jewett, Vice-Presidentof The American Telephone and Telegraph Company and President ofthe Bell Telephone Laboratories, on the occasion of the presentation tohim of the Franklin Medal by the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania, May 20th, 1936. TELEPHONY or, in fact, any form of electrical communi-cation, is truly a child of organized scientific research.It was born in a laboratory, it developed in a laboratory, andwith the passing years it came more and more to derive itslife blood from the creations of skilled scientists associatedtogether cooperatively in great industrial research organiza-tions. The fact that telephony in our modern world has cometo be an extensive and vital part of our social and businessstructure tends sometimes to mask the dependence of the serv-ice on the research men. The huge sums of money investedin plant; the thousands of employees and