1937 the TELEPHONE magazine article, invention usage switchboards operators etc

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Selling is a 1937 magazine article about:
the Telephone
Title: The Miracle of Talking by Telephone
Author: F. Barrows Colton
The article is about the telephone. It has a bit of info on its invention but most is about the present day (1937) usage in the USA and around the world. Lots of info on operations, switchboard operators, repairmen etc.
Quoting the first page “The crash of exploding shells, falling in the heart of beleaguered Madrid, is familiar to newspapermen in peaceful London, more than 800 miles away. For months now they have been hearing the roar of bombardment in the background while listening to long-distance telephone reports from war correspondents in the Spanish capital.
When Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated, and later when George VI was crowned, reporters in London telephoned news stories across the Atlantic direct to their New York offices as readily as a local reporter might phone a story of a holdup from the corner drugstore. News dispatches now are telephoned across the Atlantic almost every day, and just as easily across the Pacific.
A London newspaper correspondent, while asking Los Angeles about an earthquake, heard the sound of a shock, 5,500 miles distant.
Thus has the telephone shrunk time and space. It figuratively has contracted our planet from some 25,000 miles to about 300 feet in circumference.
If you stand at one end of a football field and shout, your voice will travel to the other end, 300 feet away, in about one-third of a second. But your voice, traveling by telephone, would take less than one-third of a second to travel all the way around the earth.
The electrical waves that are created when you speak into a telephone transmitter have in effect increased the speed of sound nearly 400,000 times.
You can telephone around the world, moreover, without even raising your voice, whereas it takes a good loud shout to be heard even the length of a 300-foot field.
Today, however, even a man with a bad cold can "shout" across an ocean; and the telephone enables him to do it with as much power as if all the millions of people in the United States were standing on the beach and shouting with him as one man.
That is the estimated amount of power given to a single human voice by the amplifiers that launch transatlantic radio telephone conversations out on the air lanes overseas.
Even though it takes the energy of a nation's lung-power to "shout" across the ocean, ears of superhuman keenness are needed to hear even so tremendous a noise when it arrives. For the large amount that starts across the ocean dwindles, after traveling 3,000 miles by radio, to no more than the energy that would fall upon your outspread hands from the far-away North Star.
Yet sensitive, keen-eared antennas pick up this tiny wisp of speech and it is amplified several million fold for easy conversation.
A man may whisper into a telephone in Washington, and be heard in San Francisco. From London you may say to a girl in Cleveland, "Will you marry me?" and hear her say "Yes" as easily as if she sat beside you in the moonlight. A suitor in London really did propose that way to a girl in Cleveland, and won her, too, though he had to talk half an hour!
Radio telephone connections from the United States bridge enormous distances. The circuit to Australia, for example, consists of a radio channel across the Atlantic…"
7” x 10”, 38 pages, 41 photos.
These are pages carefully removed from an actual 1937 magazine.
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