. Bell telephone magazine . ver encountered, these troublous timesmight bring. Editor Residents of Toledo, Ohio, wokeup to quite a shock on last April the first place, some of themwere a little chilly, for their electricblankets had gone off at 6 :o5 electric razors wouldnt work,toasters wouldnt work, electric stoveswouldnt work, the lights in theclosets wouldnt work—but this wasminor. After all, the electricity hadfailed before for short periods, sothe man of the house dug out hissafety razor and resigned himself toan old-fashioned shave. Then he turned on the water tap—and no
. Bell telephone magazine . ver encountered, these troublous timesmight bring. Editor Residents of Toledo, Ohio, wokeup to quite a shock on last April the first place, some of themwere a little chilly, for their electricblankets had gone off at 6 :o5 electric razors wouldnt work,toasters wouldnt work, electric stoveswouldnt work, the lights in theclosets wouldnt work—but this wasminor. After all, the electricity hadfailed before for short periods, sothe man of the house dug out hissafety razor and resigned himself toan old-fashioned shave. Then he turned on the water tap—and nowater flowed. This is unusual, hethought. Ill try the radio to seewhats happened—and It didntwork. How about the telephone? Hetried It—It did work. In fact, itworked overtime. It handled nearlythree times as many calls In Toledoon April 6 as on a normal day. Of course, for the telephone towork during a minor power failureis hardly news, but the April 6 powerfailure in Toledo was unusual. It The Service in Toledo 107. A modern gciiLiuiuig unit, with completely selJ-co)itai)ied cooling s\sicm. It is capable of supplying all power requirements of a central office, including normal lighting—and did so at the Walbridge office during the Toledo power failure was complete and prolonged. Allparts of greater Toledo were with-out electric light and power fornearly two hours, and it was nearlyfive hours before electricity oncemore surged through all the powerlines. This meant hospitals, fire de-partments, business buildings, fac-tories, radio stations, homes—allsegments of the community—were ata standstill. Moreover, since thepressure for Toledos water systemis provided by electricity, it too cameto a dead stop. While this Toledo disaster wasnot in any way comparable to amajor catastrophe, or what wouldoccur in the case of a bombing at-tack, it did provide an opportunityto see how telephone procedures. equipment, and personnel functionedin an actual case. As one plant manput
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