. Bell telephone magazine . ess ofconstruction forces. Ordinarily, holes may be made rapidlyby machine. But when mountain regions are being traversedand rock is encountered, blasting must be resorted to; whilepoles set in boggy land must, sometimes, be erected upon foun-dations especially created, such as pilings capped with concreteslabs. All telephone construction and, indeed, every phase of teleph-ony, is guided by a common belief. It is this: no matter whathindrances have been created by man, no matter what obstaclesnature has placed in the way, they can be overcome. Thisguiding principle
. Bell telephone magazine . ess ofconstruction forces. Ordinarily, holes may be made rapidlyby machine. But when mountain regions are being traversedand rock is encountered, blasting must be resorted to; whilepoles set in boggy land must, sometimes, be erected upon foun-dations especially created, such as pilings capped with concreteslabs. All telephone construction and, indeed, every phase of teleph-ony, is guided by a common belief. It is this: no matter whathindrances have been created by man, no matter what obstaclesnature has placed in the way, they can be overcome. Thisguiding principle does not admit of defeat. It accepts only thelimitations of the state of the art and, as the boundaries offundamental knowledge are constantly being pushed back, itaccepts those limitations only tentatively. Such an attitude inspires, in telephone-worker and telephone-user alike, a vast measure of confidence in the ability of theart of communication to grapple with the inevitable problemsof the future. Sterling Patterson 52.
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