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. Bell telephone magazine . SignalCorps during World War II, Peter , Jr., spent five and a half yearsin metropolitan newspaper work in NewYork City—including police, sports, andfinancial reporting—before joining thePublic Relations Department of the NewYork Telephone Company as a staff writerin January of 1950. (The aerial view of New York Cityused with Mr. Dolans article was obtainedfrom Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc.) Experience in a bank, as a teacher of Eng-lish, and in two well known publishinghouses preceded John K. Torberts en-trance in 1921 into the Treasury Depart-ment of the A
. Bell telephone magazine . SignalCorps during World War II, Peter , Jr., spent five and a half yearsin metropolitan newspaper work in NewYork City—including police, sports, andfinancial reporting—before joining thePublic Relations Department of the NewYork Telephone Company as a staff writerin January of 1950. (The aerial view of New York Cityused with Mr. Dolans article was obtainedfrom Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc.) Experience in a bank, as a teacher of Eng-lish, and in two well known publishinghouses preceded John K. Torberts en-trance in 1921 into the Treasury Depart-ment of the A. T. & T. Company, wherehe is now supervisor of the Communica-tions Bureau. His Answering Stockhold-ers Letters by Telephone was publishedin the Bell Telephone Quarterly in Octo-ber, 1935. Index Now Available An Index to Volume XXIX (1950) of the Hell TelephoneMagazine may be obtained without charge upon request to theInformation Department, American Telephone and TelegraphCompany, 195 Broadway, New ^ ork 7. N. ^ .. Mr. Wauol come Ce■ FJZZrS ?*** ^/A * «»«««« on the opposite page. * • In the Three-Fourths of a Century Since Be/fs Invention Carried Its First Message, the Telephone Has Achieved a Position of Vast Importance to Our Way of Fife The First 75 Years Ralph E. Mooney Authors Note: Any review of historical affairs must includesome interpretation of trends and events. Where this occurs inthe present material, it is perhaps needless to remark that theopinions and deductions of this writer are not necessarily thoseof the management of American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Bells telephone transmitted itsfirst complete sentence on March 10,1876, between two rooms on the topfloor of the boarding house at 5 Ex-eter Place, Boston, where Bell hadbeen experimenting with it. Afterdemonstrations and tests during therest of that year, it passed quicklyinto public service. By May of 1877,fourteen months after the first sen-tence was transmitted and only elevenmonths after
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