Identifier: belltelephonemag23amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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trouble, he attendedNew York Universitys night schoolto increase the education begun atthe University of Rochester, wherehe had worked his way throughFreshman year. At the close of the war Col. Stager,retired as a Brigadier General, re-turned to Cleveland as WesternUnions general superintendent. Enos Barton was transfered toWestern Union headquarters atRochester, where he became chiefoperator. In his new job, he exam-ined and tested new inventions in thefield of telegraphy. In December,1868, his friend and fellow telegra-pher, young Tom Edison, came toRochester to try out his newly In-vented double transmitter over a cir-cuit between Western Union head-quarters and New York City. Thisand similar experiences convincedBarton that a great unexplored fieldof invention and tlevelopment awaitedthe application of human genius in theelectrical communications industry. About the time of the Edison test,Barton IkuI another visitor. The 1944^45 Western Electrics First y^ Years: A Chronology 27:
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William S.Smoot Harry B.Thayer Charles G.DuBois Edgar S.Bloom Clarence G.Stoll Electric Company during its 75-year history newcomer was George Shawk, whountil a few weeks before had beenforeman of Western Unions Cleve-land repair shop. Shawk broughtinteresting news. Ive bought the shop, he toldBarton. If I had you in Cleveland,we could do great things. He wenton to describe his prospects for elec-trical repair work and the manufac-ture of fire and burglar alarms. During this conversation Shawkdisclosed that his shop was makingmodels for the inventions of a formerOberlin College physics professor,Elisha Gray. He wanted to go Inwith me, Shawk added, but I turnedhim down. I told him I didnt wantthe shop entirely given over to hisdarned fool inventions, but right nowhes our best customer. The Enterprise Is Started That meeting had far-reaching re-sults; for a few days later Roches-ters chief operator Enos Barton re-signed that post to embark on hisfirst business venture: the purchase ofa

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