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Despatches asserted that a switchboard-operator serves all the de luxe sleeping compartments. She establishes the actual connection with other trains or with stations through a "wired-wireless" telephone instrument of allegedly new and secret construction. Telephone engineers noted that "train wireless" has been possible as a stunt for a decade or more. They learned with interest that the new German invention is said to have leaped into "paying popularity...
...switchboard operator in Randolph Hall reports that over 100 calls from that dormitory have been put in for Porter 1367. It has been suggested that perhaps the Levinsky combination is in league with the telephone company...
...work, however, but included 39 separate sorts of jobs: accountants, agents, attendants, boys' club workers, care-takers, chauffeurs, choremen, clerks, coaches, companions, computers, correctors, draughtsmen, errand boys, farmers, gardeners, guides, hat checkers, hotel clerks, librarians, monitors, musicians, note takers, proctors, proof readers, readers, research workers, salesmen, settlement workers, stenographers, switchboard operators, ticket takers, translators, tutors, tutor companions, stenographers, ushers, waiters, and several others...
...telephone apparatus. It includes the equipment for a common battery telephone exchange, such as is used in all large cities, and material for a magneto-automatic telephone exchange, for use in small towns. There is also a complete equipment for a four-party line and a large assortment of switchboard and lead-covered street telephone cable. A number of transmitters and receivers have, in addition, been received from the American Bell Telephone Company...
...apparatus, which is now being mounted for experimental use, will form a complete model of switchboard and line equipment...