[TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATIONS] Part 3
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Telephone switchboard equipment - woman employee’s lounge, cafeteria, dining area, kitchen area - workers install telephone cables below ground - worker on telephone pole platform - workers install telephone cables below ground. Pulling the wire in a conduit. Cable lowered by workmen into a manhole - diagram of switchboard and telephone operation with demonstration of how a telephone call is received, routed and completed in the communications process - telephone operators at switchboard - telephone company equipment beside manhole - worker lowers gear into manhole - electrical equipment in office - employees check equipment, specific gravity and temperature of batteries for coin collecting. Automobile drives along rural road lined with telephone poles - worker stops car, puts on spurs, climbs telephone pole, makes repairs - worker on telephone pole platform attaches cable - telephone equipment in office - conduit in open trench - partitioned section of conduit lowered into trench - telephone office equipment - diagram and demonstration of telephone communications - motion picture crew members with man dressed in colonial costume - crew director demonstrates wave motion by dropping object into water in wash tub - views of crew director atop off idle building - telephone operators at switchboard - receiving Western Union telegrams - telegraph typed messages transferred to paper tape by circular keyboard machinery - tape edited and transmitted. [1918]
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