Popular science monthly . ingthe materials for thesurface course is de-scribed, and the ma-terials are enumerated. Troubleshooting at Night withthe Aid of a Searchlight THE troubleshoolers of the FarWest—the linemen who brave thefiercest weather to keep the telephoneline open at all times—have already beenimmortalized in story. It is now theturn of the troubleshooter of the bigEastern cities to get his name into thelatest fiction as a hero in disguise. Keeping telephone lines repaired is oneof the most difficult of jobs. There is nota day but the superintendent of con-struction in every big te
Popular science monthly . ingthe materials for thesurface course is de-scribed, and the ma-terials are enumerated. Troubleshooting at Night withthe Aid of a Searchlight THE troubleshoolers of the FarWest—the linemen who brave thefiercest weather to keep the telephoneline open at all times—have already beenimmortalized in story. It is now theturn of the troubleshooter of the bigEastern cities to get his name into thelatest fiction as a hero in disguise. Keeping telephone lines repaired is oneof the most difficult of jobs. There is nota day but the superintendent of con-struction in every big telephone companysends out his corps of linemen. In Pennsylvania the largest telephonecompany has a troubleshootcrs equip-ment which is the last word in big motor-truck enables the men toget to the particular scene of trouble ina minimum of time. When the callcomes in the dead of night the truckaids the linemen with its is thrown directly upon the its aid he does the work The teicpiioiif liof a searchlight 111 iiuiUiu^ ,1 iiuu 1. u under the beamwhich is mounted on an emergency truck A Motor-Truck That Equals Two
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