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A contrast between the old and the modern methods in telephone lines laying procedures in the United States.

Telephone line laying methods in the United States. Pictures of several men digging ditches and laying telephone lines. Men standing beside the ditch. A few men laying telephone lines using modern methods. Men at work and a tractor beside them. A man using an equipment to dig a man hole.

Date: 1926
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066329
Telephone lines are laid overhead and underground in the United States.

Telephone lines laid in the United States. A man at work on a telephone post. View of telephone cables laid over head. A tractor used to pull telephone cables beside a field. A ladder on the tractor. A man operating an equipment. A few men at work beside a man hole. The men unrolling a heavy duty cable from a huge holder. A tractor with equipment parked beside the men. A man at work with telephone wires beside a wall. The telephone wires kept in rolls. View of pipes along the walls.

Date: 1926
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066330
A vintage telephone truck with mechanical devices in contrast to even older telephone laying techniques in the United States.

Old versus modern (now vintage) telephone trucks in the United States. A truck trailer loaded with telephone poles driven through a wooded region. Two men on the truck. A few men unloading a telephone cable from a wheel cart. A truck with telephone line laying equipment in a wooded region. Men on the truck. A man beside the truck. Trees on both sides of the road. A modern updated telephone truck of the mid 1920's with mechanical devices fitted on to it be used in laying lines.

Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066332
Several officials present as the last wire splice is made in the New York-Chicago telephone line in the United States.

The last wire splice made in the New York-Chicago telephone line in the United States. This completed the storm proof long distance cable connection from New York to Chicago. Men exit cars on a grassy area. A number of people on a raised platform in the grassy area. Officials standing in a group. The officials watching a telephone official making the last of the wire splices for the New York-Chicago telephone line. Other officials standing beside him. A few telephone technicians fixing the splice in the heavy duty cable on the line. The officials raising their hats. A biplane aircraft in flight. View of the officials on the platform.

Date: 1925, August 11
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066333
Bell System telephone buildings in contrast to modern day telephone buildings in the United States.

Telephone buildings in the past and the present in the United States. Pictures showing the Bell System telephone buildings in the past. A large number of present day buildings in which beauty and efficiency are maintained. View of telephone buildings in Cleveland, St.Louis, San Francisco and New York in 1926.

Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066334
Technicians at devices and women operating telephone switchboard lines at Bell System telephone building in the United States.

Bell System telephone building in the United States. Bell System telephone building with the Bell System emblem on the top right corner of the building. A drawing which shows activity inside the building. View of technicians at work inside the building at various devices. Several women seated in a row operating different telephone lines and switchboards. A few instructors beside the women switchboard operators.

Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066335