. Bell telephone magazine . r-ground cable all the way from Bostonto Washington. And, as a result ofthe steadily growing public accept-ance of the telephone as an aid to living and working, there were in theUnited States nearly 6,000,000 tele-phones owned by or connecting withthe Bell System. Such were the evi-dences of telephone growth in the 34years since Bell had demonstrated histelephone at Philadelphias Centen-nial Exposition in 1876. The three men. Pope, Truex andDoolittle, had not only watched thisgrowth from the beginning; they hadthemselves played important parts inbringing it about.
. Bell telephone magazine . r-ground cable all the way from Bostonto Washington. And, as a result ofthe steadily growing public accept-ance of the telephone as an aid to living and working, there were in theUnited States nearly 6,000,000 tele-phones owned by or connecting withthe Bell System. Such were the evi-dences of telephone growth in the 34years since Bell had demonstrated histelephone at Philadelphias Centen-nial Exposition in 1876. The three men. Pope, Truex andDoolittle, had not only watched thisgrowth from the beginning; they hadthemselves played important parts inbringing it about. The first two,who in 1910 were at the headquar-ters of the American Company, hadbegun their telephone careers in 1878and 1879 respectively. Both had hadlong and eventful experience as par-ticipants in the telephones establish-ment and development in the impor-tant area of metropolitan New B. Doolittles invention ofhard drawn copper wire, adopted bythe American Bell Telephone Com- 126 Bell Telephone Magazine JUNE. Charles R. Truex Henry W. Pope pany in 1883, had revolutionizedboth telephone construction and tele-phone transmission technique; and inaddition to his long service as a tele-phone engineer, he was one of the in-corporators of the American Tele-phone and Telegraph Company. Thus these three men had trulypioneered in the development of agreat and growing public had felt the pride of noting itsever-broadening scope, its ever-in-creasing usefulness. And having thepersonal satisfaction of all whosepioneering work has contributed tosuch development, it was not strangethat they should, with enthusiasm,discuss the idea—originally proposedby Pope—of forming an associationof other telephone men and womenwith the same memories and the samesatisfactions. Nor was it strange that Theodore N. Vail, President of the AmericanTelephone and Telegraph Company,whose advice they sought, shouldgreet the proposal with equal en-thusiasm. No one realized betterthan
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