Institute meeting, February 11, 1910

The two hundred and forty-third meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers was held in the auditorium of the Engineers´ Building, 33 West 39th Street, New York City, on Friday, February 11, 1910. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Telegraphy and Telephony Committee, and in accordance with previous custom at meetings held under the direct auspices of committees, Mr. William Maver, Jr., chairman of the committee, was called upon to preside. In the absence of President Stillwell, Secretary Ralph W. Pope called the meeting to order at 8:15 p. m. Mr. Pope announced that at the meeting of the Institute Board of Directors held during the afternoon 75 Associates were elected, and three Associates were transferred to the grade of Member. Chairman Maver then introduced Mr. W. Lee Campbell, of the Automatic Electric Company, Chicago, ill., who presented a paper entitled “A Modern Automatic Telephone Apparatus.” An interesting feature in connection with the paper was an exhibit of the Strowger automatic telephone exchange system with nine subscribers´ stations which had been installed for the meeting in various parts of the auditorium. Mr. Campbell described the apparatus, and gave a number of interesting demonstrations of the operation of the system. The paper was discussed by Messrs. Ralph W. Pope, William Maver, Jr., Edward A. Mellinger, H. W. Pope, Charles A. LeQuesne, Jr., Parker H. Kemble, J. H. Shearer, and W. Lee Campbell and others.