. Bell telephone magazine . The future becomes present: PICTUREPHONE service is now here on a commercial basisbetween New York, Chicat^o and Washint^ton, D. C. On the inaugural day of the 24, the first call was made from the National Geographic Society Building inWashington, D. C, by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson to Dr. Elizabeth A. Wood, a scientist atBell Telephone Laboratories and former president of the American CrystallographicAssociation, in New Yorks Grand Central Terminal. Above, one of the more striking benefitsof the new service was demonstrated on opening day when Laura Rabino
. Bell telephone magazine . The future becomes present: PICTUREPHONE service is now here on a commercial basisbetween New York, Chicat^o and Washint^ton, D. C. On the inaugural day of the 24, the first call was made from the National Geographic Society Building inWashington, D. C, by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson to Dr. Elizabeth A. Wood, a scientist atBell Telephone Laboratories and former president of the American CrystallographicAssociation, in New Yorks Grand Central Terminal. Above, one of the more striking benefitsof the new service was demonstrated on opening day when Laura Rabinowitz, a 15-year-olddeaf student at New Yorks Lexington School for the Deaf, and Howard Mann, 14, (on screen),communicated by lip reading during the first PICTUREPHONE call from the PrudentialBuilding in Chicago to Grand Central Terminal in New VOLUME XLIir NUMBER TWO SUMMER 1964 BELLTELEPHONE IE George B. Turrell, Jr. Editor Donald R. Woodford Managing Editor Alix L. L. Ritchie Associate Editor Salvatore J. Taibbi Art Editor Frederick R. Kappel Chairman of the Board Eugene J. McNeely President Charles E. Wampler Secretary John J. Scanlon Treasurer Published for the Bell System by the Public Relations Department, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 195 Broadway, New York, N, Y. 10007 Area Code 212 393-2410
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