Journal of electricity, power, and gas . every business and as the telegraph companies must like-wise depend upon volume, every encouragement was giventhe inventor with the result that the duplex and quadru-plex systems, used today in telegraph operation are thecrowning achievement of those scientific delvers. Telephony, with its maze of apparatus, at once secureda firm foothold in the world commercial and social, becomingthe right hand of the business man in his office and a servantin his home—a boon, in fact, upon which he became whollydependent. For long, his country cousin was denied all t
Journal of electricity, power, and gas . every business and as the telegraph companies must like-wise depend upon volume, every encouragement was giventhe inventor with the result that the duplex and quadru-plex systems, used today in telegraph operation are thecrowning achievement of those scientific delvers. Telephony, with its maze of apparatus, at once secureda firm foothold in the world commercial and social, becomingthe right hand of the business man in his office and a servantin his home—a boon, in fact, upon which he became whollydependent. For long, his country cousin was denied all this,but now, we find the vast stretches of our farming countrypunctuated at nearly all necessary points by telephone com-panies in a large measure prepared for first class local serv-ice with constant demand for more extended service. Themajority of these companies are confronted by the necessityof providing longer lines. The construction of long toll lines, has, in the past,been more or less prohibitory owing to the necessary outlay,. QQ g f? S | Bryant Electric Companys Sample Cabinet. 88 JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY, POWER AND GAS [Vol. XXXII—No. 4 coupled with the fact that all available capital was requiredto construct the shorter local lines between the several ex-changes as they were established and the outcome of thisgrowth is an extensive system of pole lines carrying numer-ous short local circuits. Thus, the necessity frequentlyarises of building up a circuit through a half dozen switch-boards in order to reach points a short distance away, bycomparison, resulting in poor transmission, annoying inter-ruptions from operators coming in on the line for supervis-ion and, withal, slow service. Telephone companies that owe their inception to a localdesire or demand for neighborhood communication, now findthemselves obliged to cope with an ever-growing demandfor good commercial service between constantly increasing designed especially to meet the requirements of every classof
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