Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14756418222)

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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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SCENE OF THE FIRST AIR MAIL EXPERIMENT IN THE UNITED STATES During an International Aviation Meet held at the Nassau Boulevard aerodrome onLong Island during September of i9ii, regular mail-carrying flights were made to Mineola,L. /., where the mail sacks were dropped in a field at the feet of the postmaster. (Repro-duced from the Scientific American of October 7, 1911) The inauguration of night-flying,made possible by the use of lighted airroutes and various forms of radio ap-paratus; the increase in the length ofhaul that is possible without changeof pilots or planes; vast improvementin equipment and personnel—all theseand many other factors have contrib-uted toward making the coast-to-coastair mail service what it is today. Asof December 15, 1939, schedules is-sued by the Post Office at New Yorkshowed ten air mails a day from thatcity to various points in California;five to points in Oregon; five to pointsin the State of Washington. Typicalof the time made by these coast-to-coast