. Bell telephone magazine . s are learning about the operation of tele-in the Museum of Science and Industryin Chicago an airplane—use of telephone com-munications to reach anyone any-where can be shown. Visitors canoperate the diorama by listening toa telephone receiver. While they seethese calls traced out on the diorama,they hear a synchronized story. Other museum exhibits at Chicagoinclude transmission, how your tele-phone works, new Bell Laboratoriesdevelopments, hearing tests, the one-millionth Chicago telephone, West-ern Electric manufacture, crossbarswitches, and the ever-popular Os-ca
. Bell telephone magazine . s are learning about the operation of tele-in the Museum of Science and Industryin Chicago an airplane—use of telephone com-munications to reach anyone any-where can be shown. Visitors canoperate the diorama by listening toa telephone receiver. While they seethese calls traced out on the diorama,they hear a synchronized story. Other museum exhibits at Chicagoinclude transmission, how your tele-phone works, new Bell Laboratoriesdevelopments, hearing tests, the one-millionth Chicago telephone, West-ern Electric manufacture, crossbarswitches, and the ever-popular Os-car demonstration of binaural hear-ing. A small theater projects BellSystem sound movies, and adjoiningthe theater is a childrens workshopwhere youngsters may work withvarious items of telephone apparatus. Another outstanding museum isthe Franklin Institute in Philadel-phia. Founded in 1824, and de-signed to be a permanent memorial 238 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER. The Panorama of Telephone Progress in Montreal is representative of historicaldisplays in several telephone company headquarters to Benjamin Franklin, it is dedicatedto the promotion of the mechanicarts and the dissemination of scien-tific knowledge. About 300,000 people visited theInstitute in 1950, and an estimated200,000 a year will view the BellTelephone Company of Pennsyl-vanias new exhibit there, whichopened experimentally last April. The elements of the main displaysare similar to those in the ChicagoMuseum of Science and tell a basic research story asapplied to the field of telephony. The layout consists of a circularroom where the exhibits are set in re-cessed niches. It is on two floorlevels, from which the various unitsmay be viewed. Upon entering theroom, visitors are directed bv a sign to start the tour by ascending a stair-way. They then proceed clockwisearound a ramp to the bottom of an-other stairway. At this point theymay enter either a hearing-test room
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