Word: manual
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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...
...line, the caller turns the dial. Each dial turn actuates a delicate electro-magnet at the automatic exchange. If the call is to another dial call, the automatic exchange mechanically connects the call with the proper exchange, number and party, rings insistently. If the dial call is to a manual telephone, the automatic exchange mechanically registers the called number on the big board in a manual exchange, where an operator reads the number, plugs the call through. Because operators are trained to hear numbers, they read them relatively slowly from the call board, a costly and vexatious matter...
...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...
Several unusual copies are to be seen in the Widener room. One very old edition, of which there are but three other copies extant at the present time, is the "York Manual." This masterpiece was written entirely by hand in red and black figures, and inserted between the lines are musical notations, which are in many cases the same as are used in hymns sung at churches of the present...
...five uncles served in the Civil War, himself in the World War. As a Georgian newsgatherer in 1914, he helped pass child labor laws. His study The Gangs of New York has been praised by gangsters themselves. He edited The Bon Vivant's Companion, an elegant liquor manual (1928). In aspect he is an extremely busy Manhattan journalist, with a great curiosity about the more flamboyant affairs of state...