Image: Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14753929944)

Description: Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (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 Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: telephone exchanges. Construction of this line, connect-ing Denver, Central City, IdahoSprings, and Georgetown with thebooming Western Slope camp of Lead-ville was a staggering job for bothman and beast. When the high alti-tudes were reached, a base camp wasestablished at timberline, with a largecrew working toward the top. All materials had to be maneuvered to thesummit by men and horses. Simplygetting to and from work each dayoften meant an arduous climb of sev-eral thousand feet in the thin andbrittle air of this altitude. It had been planned to lay sub-marine cable in a shallow trench overthe top section as a protection to theservice against the vicious storms thatswirled over the crest. But the snowscame early in 1899, and the cable hadnot arrived, so a crew under MurrayMacNeill, present plant extensions en-gineer of the Mountain States Tele-phone and Telegraph Company, laidinsulated wire over the snow for useduring that first winter. The wire 28 Bell Telephone Magazine FEBRUARY Text Appearing After Image: 19^2 Across the Roof of the Continent 29 Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14753929944)
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