. Bell telephone magazine . 195° The Telephone in the American Scene 95 which promise evengreater convenience anddependability for thetelephone user. Aboutthree-quarters of ourtelephones are nowdial; a new handsettelephone now undertest has even betterhearing and speakingqualities than those nowin use; the operatordialing of toll calls hasbeen extended to aboutone-third of our inter-city business. Some of our new as-semblies of central of-fice equipment are mar-vels of electrical inge-nuity, using the latestdevelopments in theelectronic field. Forexample, in one type ofcentral switching office
. Bell telephone magazine . 195° The Telephone in the American Scene 95 which promise evengreater convenience anddependability for thetelephone user. Aboutthree-quarters of ourtelephones are nowdial; a new handsettelephone now undertest has even betterhearing and speakingqualities than those nowin use; the operatordialing of toll calls hasbeen extended to aboutone-third of our inter-city business. Some of our new as-semblies of central of-fice equipment are mar-vels of electrical inge-nuity, using the latestdevelopments in theelectronic field. Forexample, in one type ofcentral switching office,when a dialed call is de-layed in getting throughbecause of some me-chanical trouble, the equipment locates the difficulty, pany, which manufactures telephonepunches holes in a special card to tell apparatus, purchases supplies, and in-the story, rings a bell, and drops the stalls central-office equipment. Goodcard in a box for a repairman. An- telephone service at low cost is not. Costs are higher where more people have to be inter-connected and more elaborate switching equipmenthas to be installed other central office set-up graduallybeing put into use automatically re-cords on punched tapes, sorts, anilassembles the data necessary for bill-ing calls dialed by the subscribers. The advances in telephone service—those which have been accom-plished and those now in the making—are directly attributable to theclose integration within our Systemof the Bell Telephone Laboratories,which carry on telephone research,and of the Western Electric Com- something which just happens. Onthe contrary, to make the servicecontinuously cheaper as well as betterrequires the closest kind of coordina-tion between research, manufactur-ing, and operation. We are con-vinced through long experience thatthis arrangement is in the best in-terests of the telephone user. Onlyin this way can he reap the fullestbenefits from scientific research andmass production. When the first transconti
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