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Identifier: belltelephonemag19amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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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completion. My only purpose in writing thisletter is to let the proper parties knowthat there is at least one person whorealizes the expense attached to thisfree service, the clarity of the conver-sation, and the courtesy of the attend-ants at the booth, and I take thismeans of making my appreciationknown, Visitors asked many questions about the cost of the calls placed. In each case we presented the questioner with a booklet showing rates from Treasure Island to one or more points in every state. Almost invariably people were surprised at the low cost of telephon- I ing. They usually thought the charge j would be two or three times the rate ; shown in the booklet. Comments ! made to our people at the Exhibit I indicated that many commercial calls have resulted and that many people j are beginning to use long distance who I had not used it before. The Voice Mirror Was Popular I Xhe voice mirror was a very popu- I lar demonstration, despite the fact that it has been shown at telephone
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open houses and at the other recentexhibits of the Bell System. Duringthe busy periods of the day peoplestood two and three deep waiting forthe opportunity to participate. Ap-proximately 900,000 people listened tothe reproduction of their voices, andmany more than this number partici-pated by listening on the receivers tothis interesting test. In some casespeople returned for repeated demon-strations in an endeavor to correctspeech difficulties. A gentleman complained to thevoice mirror receptionist that he haddifficulty being heard over the tele-phone. He said that he had beenembarrassed many times by havingtelephone operators address him asyes, Maam. Observation of hisuse of the voice mirror telephone dis-closed that he spoke very softly andnot directly into the telephone. Whenthese faults were called to his atten-tion, the results were greatly im-proved, much to his delight. A humorous incident occurred whichconcerns a foreign gentleman and hisfamily. He said into the voice mir-ror

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