Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...save the telephone companies money and to serve better those communities which have both the new dial and the old manual telephone service, Bell Telephone Laboratories invented a device which saves time and reduces errors on calls from dial to manual instruments. Last week the device was demonstrated in Manhattan...
...device, demonstrated last week by Assistant Vice President Sergius Paul Grace of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Inc., utilizes the auditory intelligence and accuracy of the manual operators. Instead of the dialer causing letters and numbers on the call board before the operator, for each letter and number he dials he causes a separate drum to revolve. On each drum is fixed a talking film on which one of the clearest-speaking operators in New York City, chubby Miss Catherine M. Shaughnessy, has registered digits or letters as the particular drum requires. When dialed, the drums swirl until the called symbols...
After showing off his talkie-phone, Mr. Grace demonstrated the newly Bell-discovered physiological fact that the human ear drum and surrounding tissues act in the same manner as the condenser plate of a radio receiver. He stuck one of his fingers into an ear of one of his audience, modulated a high frequency current by speaking into a transmitter, let the modulated current pass through his body to his finger tip to the man's ear. The man "heard" Mr. Grace's words. The man felt as though he were thinking Mr. Grace's phrases...
...reason for this deflection from the country to the city, according to Dr. Bell, head of a typical small country college, in the "academic and intellectual isolation of the teaching staff." And because of this isolation Dr. Bell is of the opinion that the day of the small college, independent of the university, is definitely over. He suggests in place of undergraduate college within the great university, a plan which seems very much akin to the Oxford system...
...there is a great degree of truth in Dr. Bell's statement as to the incompetency of the small college in getting adequate teachers. It it is not possible to uproot their physical plants and transfer them to the larger universities, it still remains possible to form a closer connection between the two types by exchanging professors and giving the larger institutions a guiding influence in the administration of the smaller colleges...