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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... difficulty in persuading the commonsense Englishman that the telephone is a very useful instrument. I must say more about ourselves. You must excuse me for continuing to crow, because I have something to crow about and I cannot help it. The trunk system in this country was taken over in 1896, and I think all round that the service has not only been well conducted, but it has led to a great start in the use of the telephone by those who did not care much about it before. I find that the number of telephones supplied by the Telephone Company since this agreement was in use has more than doubled. In 1896 we took over about 29,000 miles of wire, and now we have 56,000 miles. We have 1958 circuits. There are 153, I think, at Manchester alone, and 97 trunk circuits in Liverpool itself. The reason why Manchester is rather ahead of Liverpool is simply because Manchester is a better centre. You have the sea; Manchester has not, it has only the canal on one side. Another instance of the growth of this business is that when we took the business over, for the first month the receipts were £7000; in 1898, the last month, they were exactly double (£14,000) and I may say the business itself has exceeded our estimates. We always like our estimates to be exceeded when they are estimates of revenue, but quite a different thing when they are estimates of expenditure. I may tell you, although I may be impertinent for saying so, that every single improvement adopted in America and elsewhere in working the telephones has emanated from the British Post Office. Wherever you go now you find everybody wanting metallic circuits, and we have never used anything else. We adopted a system of automatic signalling, and now I learn from two of my officers who have been over to t...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 123217470X
- ISBN 13 9781232174707
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages90
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