. Bell telephone magazine . m NORFOLK, VA., HARBOR AND COASTAL RADIO-TELEPHONE STATION Merrill C. Lee, Architect TROUT LAKE, WIS. TOLEDO, OHIO, LONG LINES TYPE K CARRIER EQUIPMENT STATION I THE TELEPHONE AS A SOCIAL FORCE* As an Instrument of National Solidarity, and as a Means for Expediting Business and Personal Affiairs, the Service Makes Significant Contributions to the Country^s Progress By ROBERTSON T. BARRETT D URiNG the pioneering days,when new areas were beingopened in the West, variousforms of one-way communicationserved the needs of the nation fairlywell. It took days or weeks to se
. Bell telephone magazine . m NORFOLK, VA., HARBOR AND COASTAL RADIO-TELEPHONE STATION Merrill C. Lee, Architect TROUT LAKE, WIS. TOLEDO, OHIO, LONG LINES TYPE K CARRIER EQUIPMENT STATION I THE TELEPHONE AS A SOCIAL FORCE* As an Instrument of National Solidarity, and as a Means for Expediting Business and Personal Affiairs, the Service Makes Significant Contributions to the Country^s Progress By ROBERTSON T. BARRETT D URiNG the pioneering days,when new areas were beingopened in the West, variousforms of one-way communicationserved the needs of the nation fairlywell. It took days or weeks to senda letter and receive a reply; it oftentook hours, and always minutes, tosend a telegram and get an answerback. Up to the end of the first cen-tury of our national history, or there-abouts, nobody particularly with the faster tempo of industryand commerce, the time was soon tocome when a nation geared to highspeed would no longer be satisfied tomake its business and social contactsby means of one-way communicatio
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