Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14570194797)

Identifier: belltelephonemag19amerrich (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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enat the Exposition, they invariablyspoke of our Exhibit as an outstandingattraction. Also, when one stood atthe exit of the Exhibit listening to thecomments of people as they were leav-ing, one continually overheard suchcomments as, Isnt this a grand ex-hibit!, and This is certainly an in-teresting exhibit. The attendance figures graphicallyillustrate the popularity of the Ex-hibit. Of the 10,496,000 persons whopaid admission to the Exposition, ap-proximately 5,334,000, or 50.8 percent, visited the Bell Telephone Sys-tem Exhibit. The average length oftime visitors remained was about 30minutes. The popularity of our Exhibit wasnot, we believe, traceable to any par-ticular demonstration. Each showedits value in attracting people. Thisis borne out by the following analysisof results obtained by the variousdemonstrations. The Lon^ Distance Demonstrations 1 HE demonstration of long distancetelephone calls undoubtedly causedmore repeat visits than any of our 19^0 The Golden Gate Exposition

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EXTERIOR OF THE BELL SYSTEM EXHIBIT It was housed in its own structure within the Palace of Electricity other demonstrations. Many peoplewho were frequent visitors to the Ex-position made it a point to apply fora demonstration call on every trip tothe island. Some persons spent anentire day in our Exhibit. During the period of the Exposi-tion, nearly 546,000 visitors made ap-plication for demonstration long dis-tance calls. Of these, more than 37,-000 were given the opportunity toplace calls. Approximately 82 percent were completed. Of those notcompleted, dont answer accountedfor 75 per cent. Calls were handled to places in ev-ery state of the Union and the Dis-trict of Columbia. In cases wherecalls were to points served by non-Bell telephone companies, connec-tions were completed by the com-panies operating in those areas, underarrangements endorsed by the UnitedStates Independent Telephone Asso-ciation. The length of time people listenedin on demonstration calls varied froma few mom

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