Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph J. Thomson, headmaster of Trinity College, Cambridge, discoverer of the electron, and considered by many the greatest living physicist, is in the United States on an extended visit as the guest of Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. As guest of the Western Electric Company at luncheon in the Bell System laboratories, Sir Joseph saw in operation many applications of his fundamental theories and inventions. Among these was a water-cooled copper vacuum tube, devised by W. G. Housekeeper, with 40 times the capacity of the present glass-enclosed tube used in long-distance radio. This may shortly be installed...
About 30 members of the University attended the talk on the "Non-Technical Opportunities in the Bell System for Harvard Men" by Mr. D. S. Bridgman of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in Harvard 1 last night. Mr. Bridgman dealt mainly with the work in the three departments of the System that are open to non-technical men. These, according to Mr. Bridgman, are the traffic, commercial and field departments...
...Bridgman also described the Western Electric plant in Chicago, a subsidiary of the Bell system, which employs 30,000 people and covers 200 acres of ground. "This company turns out $150,000,000 worth of apparatus each year," said Mr. Bridgman...
Tomorrow and Friday, the Bell System will send employment representatives from the several affiliated companies to conduct personal interviews with any of the members of the University who wish to learn more of the System's non-technical field of activities. The interviews will be held in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House from 10 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The men who will hold these conferences are Mr. F. A. Benham of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, Mr. E. G. Anderson of the New York Telephone Company...
Although the Bell Telephone System now serves two-thirds of the world's telephone, the pioneering work has just begun according to MR. H. R. Thayer, executive head of the Bell System...