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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19^0 TheNew York Fair 65 ants entered check marks on com-pleted test cards showing sex, color,and approximate age of the visitor.Recordak photographs were thenmade of the test cards. It is thefirst time information of this kind hasbeen available in such volume, and itsvalue to telephone engineering and thewhole field of human hearing is sub-stantial. Ihe witnesses say:— Man: Said the Bell System is doingmankind a real service in providinghearing tests. He added he was muchimpressed by the girls employed atthe Exhibit. My left ear is better than my rightear. I am certainly surprised to knowthat. Woman: Said she had taken a hear-ing test a month ago and her hearingwas slightly impaired. Since then shehad gone to an ear doctor for treat-ment, and this test now showed herhearing perfectly normal. I am a railroad engineer and al-ways thought my hearing was im-paired by the wind when I ride withmy head out of the locomotive win-dow. It is the surprise of my lifeto find my hearing normal.
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THE VODER FASCINATES THE CROWDS The manipulative skill of the operator s fingers makes the Voders voice almost loo good to be true 66 Bell Telephone Quarterly JANUARY Man: Said he failed to hear thehigh frequencies in the tones test andthis had convinced his wife he did notand could not hear the squeak in thefamily car. He added this argumenthad been going on for some time. —As Others Heard Them In attempting to describe our ex-hibits, one is conscious of the limita-tions of space. This is particularlytrue of Audition, for it would be easyto write of it at great length. The at-tractive garden scene, the informalsocial conversation between a groupof visitors and an Exhibit man direct-ing the conversation, the substitutionof mannequins for the visitors, andthe high-fidelity reproduction of theconversation made a diverting showwhich attracted audiences of livelyinterest. At the opening of the Fair the pub-lic seemed to appraise Audition assomething of a stunt. But almost im-mediately i

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