Identifier: bellvol25telephonemag00amerrich (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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he important tools usedin most of the studies of rockets wasa high-speed ribbon frame camera,especially developed to obtain knowl-edge of the behavior of rockets dur-ing the early part of their flight. It was by the use of special ap-paratus and tools of this sort, andthrough an intensive application ofnative genius, that American jet pro-pulsion, which was almost non-exist-ent at the beginning of the war, be-came one of the important factors inour final victory. The war developments here re-counted are only a few of those actu-ally carried out. The original designand development were undertaken bythe Bell Laboratories, and manufac-turing was done for the most part bythe Western Electric Company. Butevery branch of the Bell System madeits contribution of trained personnel:either on loan directly to the Labora-tories, or on military leave with thosebranches of the Armed Forces whichinstalled and maintained all sorts ofcommunications equipment under allconditions and all over the world.
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Field Engineers of the Bell System s Manufacturing Arm Accompanied Our Army and Navy in All Theaters to Help Keep Electronic Devices at Peak Performance Western Electric ExpertsWith the Armed Forces I /. Stedman IVard Out on Midway Island early in1945 a Navy radar technician aboarda U. S. submarine reported hav-ing had a brush with a trouble-makernamed Little Joe. He didnt saya word about it to the IntelligenceOfficer, or to the Shore Patrol either;they wouldnt have been interested.Trouble of this kind was in the prov-ince of a fellow who wasnt really inthe Navy at all; yet he was certainly0/ the Navy, for the Bureau of Shipshad requested that he come to Mid-way, required that he wear a Navyuniform, and arranged that he be ac-corded all the privileges of a navalofficer. The man to whom the Little Joetrouble was reported was a WesternElectric field engineer. The field engineer had seen Joe,under one guise or another, oftenenough in the past, and knew him foran old and troublesome offen

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