Telephone and telecommunication equipment at a telecommunication center in the United States. The telephone equipment beside a man hole on a city street. A worker beside the equipment. A worker lowers gear into the man hole. Men on the road and buildings in the background. View of electrical equipment inside a telecommunication center building controlling the telephone system. Employees checking specific gravity and temperature at the equipment. Another equipment in view at the center.
Telephone cable repairing on poles in the United States. A car drives along a road lined with telephone poles. Trees and bushes on either side of the road. The car stops on the road and a worker gets down and puts on spurs. The worker climbs up a telephone pole and repairs the line. A worker on a platform on a telephone pole. The worker attaching a telephone cable.
Telecommunication equipment and early telephone system infrastructure in the United States. A conduit in an open trench. A partitioned section of the conduit lowered into the trench. Views of equipment at a telephone company center.
Telecommunication process demonstration in the United States. A man standing beside an equipment at a telecommunication center. A diagram showing telephone communication. The man demonstrating the processes in telephone communication. The man wears headphones and holds a pointer in his hand. The man demonstrates by pointing to the various processes in the telecommunication diagram. Motion picture crew members atop a building. Several buildings in the background. One of the men wearing a colonial costume. Crew director demonstrates wave motion by dropping an object into water in a tub. View of the crew director standing atop the building.
Telecommunication process at a telecommunication center in the United States. Several women telephone operators seated at a switchboard. Telegrams received. Telegraph typed messages are transferred to a paper tape (ticker tape) by circular keyboard equipment. Men getting the tape edited and transmitted.
Animated representation of signals sent to communications satellite Telstar 1 from the ground station at Andover, Minnesota. Telstar communication satellite at a ground station in Andover. Technicians checking the satellite before launch. View of Telstar rotating within a lit box as the sapphire coated solar cells on its surface are explained by narrator: Solar energy collected by the solar panel cells powers the sattelite's operation. View of the satellite with the equipment that receives data and amplifies and retransmits the data. Telstar prepared to be launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Telstar satellite aboard a Thor-Delta rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral. Officers at the station tracking the satellite. The rocket with the satellite on its path. Animation shows signals sent from from the station to the satellite. Officers tracking the path of the satellite Telstar. The first picture sent by the satellite are of the dome of the station at Andover with the U.S. flag beside the dome of the station. Animation shows future network of satellites that will someday encircle the globe.
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