. Bell telephone magazine . his sense of touch arenow controlled electronically to aprecision far beyond that of the mostskillful operator. Surface roughnessand similar properties previously ob-served by touch are now measuredelectronically. Taste and smell?—well, there maybe electronic devices to extend thesealso. Continuously there are about i,-500,000 vacuum tubes in operation inthe Bell System. The annual re-quirement for replacements is about250,000 and would be much greaterexcept for the ingenuity of the elec-tronic research engineer in designingtubes with long life as one primaryobjecti
. Bell telephone magazine . his sense of touch arenow controlled electronically to aprecision far beyond that of the mostskillful operator. Surface roughnessand similar properties previously ob-served by touch are now measuredelectronically. Taste and smell?—well, there maybe electronic devices to extend thesealso. Continuously there are about i,-500,000 vacuum tubes in operation inthe Bell System. The annual re-quirement for replacements is about250,000 and would be much greaterexcept for the ingenuity of the elec-tronic research engineer in designingtubes with long life as one primaryobjective. In such use electronics isno remote scientific mystery but awilling servant of a great industry,taught by the scientists at the BellLaboratories—through study of whathas gone before and their own de-velopments—to perform in manyways which make service better, effecteconomies, and so benefit the tele-phone user every time he picks upthe receiver to call the neighbor nextdoor or some far distant corner ofthe im- i j1 1 j^^ll^^^^- - ■|/\ T K^^fk uK ibb4I^*^^ |C|JI|V^L1|.. ^ r> \.] 1^ IBbu ^jL^^^^k^s^ sM^Ai^^Kfes When, under the impetus of a hurricane,salt water attacks dry land, any resort com- \munity in the way must expect to suffer Such varied craft as barge andsloop effectively block this highway No TRAIN ran here for several days, afterthe ocean had undermined roadbed and over-flowed tracks. Telephone cable stands at left 182 For the Second Time the Bell System Demonstrates Its Great Recuperative Powers as a Tropical Storm Gets Off the Beam and Damages the North Atlantic Seaboard A Hurricane Strikes Again Judson S. Bradley The second tropical hurricane tostrike the North Atlantic states insix years, chaperoned for a week bythe U. S. Weather Bureau and re-ported on almost hourly during mostof that period, lived up fully to itsadvance billings when it ravaged thecoast from the Virginia Capes toMaine on Thursday and early Fri-day, September 14 and 15. The
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