Telegraphy in the Bell system (44–128)

F B. Bramhall (Western Union Telegraph Company, New York, N. Y.): Three valuable papers on record communication in this country were fittingly presented at the St. Louis summer technical meeting, a full session being devoted to the marking of 100 years of practical telegraphy. Each of these papers stands admirably on its own feet as a report on the present state of the art and the practices of these corporations which the respective authors represent. The paper by d´Humy and Howe, however, is not a complete report on land-line telegraphy unless augmented by the excellent paper of Duncan, Parker, and Pierce on the customer-to-customer teletypewriter exchange service rendered by American Telephone and Telegraph Company. So, likewise, the paper by Pratt and Roosevelt gives an incomplete picture of present day technique in ocean-cable telegraphy without that section of the d´Humy-Howe paper which outlines Western Union Company´s modern ocean-cable practices.