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Identifier: belltelephonemag26amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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der Gra-ham Bell. He probably would not careas much about what it means in dollarsas the lives it saves when help is neededquickly, the comfort it brings by dispellingloneliness in isolated spots, the friendshipsit strengthens by speeding social contacts.Granted enough data, statisticians couldcalculate what the telephone means in thedollars and cents of the business world.For the balance of the debt there is nohuman measure. The Ocean Grove (N.J.) Timesterms the Bell System a monumentto the telephones inventor: It can be truly said that the Bell Sys-tem belongs to people in all walks of life,in the cities, towns and rural areas ofAmerica. Five states have more than50,000 stockholders each, 26 states morethan 5,000 and no state has fewer than500 stockholders. The capital of the Bell System comesfrom the savings of the many rather thanthe wealth of the few. There could be nofiner monument than this to the memory ofAlexander Graham Bell, the inventor of 26 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING
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/■/ sii/I from the A. T. & T. Companys motion picture Mr. Bell. Here he says good-bye to one of his deaf pupils after having taken refuge on the porch of a Boston hotel during a storm the telephone, whose birth lOO years agowill be celebrated on March 3. The Washington (D.C.) Postquite naturally feels a rather proprie-tary interest in the occasion: A century ago today Alexander Gra-ham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scot-land, but it was only a little Hiore than 70years ago—that is to say, within the lives,if not the memories, of many persons stillamong us—that he gave the first success-ful public demonstration of his talkinggadget at the Centennial Exposition inPhiladelphia. This, as we now realize,was in invention comparable in its histori-cal significance to the smelting of iron, orto first printing from movable types, or tothe earliest utilization of steam power.Indeed, the telephone has become so mucha necessity and so much a commonplace ofour existences that it is difficu

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