Excerpt from Practical Features of Telephone Work

The hints and suggestions contained in this book are the te sult of an experience covering fourteen years of active work, and while not as complete in all respects as the author could wish, yet he cannot help but feel that they will be useful to many who are just entering the telephone field.

Many of us have learned a great deal about the telephone business during the last four years that we did not know before. In the old days we had simply to take the apparatus designed and constructed by the parent company, and if it did not work, simply send it back. Competition has developed a new profes sion, namely, telephone engineering. The opening up of competition has also ¿ooded the market with all kinds and styles of instruments, and those of us who thought we had mastered the art, found out that there was yet a great deal to learn. Be sides, competition has now made the public exacting and dis criminating, and nothing but the best will do, and the old days of grounded circuits and inefficient instruments are past, but.

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