. Bell telephone magazine . d were merged with a similar groupmaintained in that city by the West-ern Electric Company. At the sametime, a considerable part of West-erns group of development engineersin Chicago was removed to NewYork to form a part of the new cen-tralized unit at 463 West Street, un-der the direction of Chief EngineerC. E. Scribncr. I944~45 Western Electrics First y^ Years: A Chronology 279 Mr, Thayer was elected presidentof the Western Electric Company in1908 and Mr. Barton became chair-man of the board. The nation hadwell over 6,000,000 telephones andthe Hawthorne plant had
. Bell telephone magazine . d were merged with a similar groupmaintained in that city by the West-ern Electric Company. At the sametime, a considerable part of West-erns group of development engineersin Chicago was removed to NewYork to form a part of the new cen-tralized unit at 463 West Street, un-der the direction of Chief EngineerC. E. Scribncr. I944~45 Western Electrics First y^ Years: A Chronology 279 Mr, Thayer was elected presidentof the Western Electric Company in1908 and Mr. Barton became chair-man of the board. The nation hadwell over 6,000,000 telephones andthe Hawthorne plant had continuedto expand through almost uninter-rupted construction of additionalbuildings. Western Electric had car-ried the instruments of communica- Electric power apparatus by Westernwas consummated. W. E. in World War I World War I started in 1914, andthe United States began to be in-volved in diplomatic incidents during1915. In 1916 the engineers of theWestern Electric Company and theA. T. & T, Co. conducted a mobiliza-. DisTRiBu tion at the old Philadelphia distributing house about 1^04 tion and many other electrical devicesto far parts of the world. By 1909 the Increasing growth ofthe telephone manufacturing businessindicated the wisdom of selling West-ern Electrics extensive power ap-paratus manufacturing business to theGeneral Electric Company. Coinci-dent with this sale, an agency arrange-ment for the distribution of General tion test, in cooperation with theU, S. Navy, establishing a nation-wide network of communicationsusing telephone, telegraph, radio, andteletypewriters to communicate amongpoints on this continent and ships de-ployed in adjacent waters. This sys-tem was used by the Government af-ter we entered the war In April, 1917,and one of its offshoots was the first 28o Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER ship-to-shore radio telephone equip-ment made bv Western and suppliedin quantity to the Navy. The use of airplanes as a militaryweapon in that war developed a needfor
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