item: #1 of 10
          id: 101
      author: Sterling, Bruce
       title: The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
        date: None
       words: 105648
      flesch: 69
     summary: Said the New York Times Service: Telephone company executives and federal regulators said they were not ruling out the possibility of sabotage by computer hackers, but most seemed to think the problems stemmed from some unknown defect in the software running the networks. Because the phone network pre-dates the computer network, the scofflaws known as phone phreaks pre-date the scofflaws known as computer hackers.
    keywords: access; agents; american; at&t; atlanta; barlow; bell; bellsouth; boards; book; break; bulletin; business; calls; card; case; center; chicago; civil; code; come; community; companies; company; computer; computer crime; computer security; control; cops; corporate; course; crackdown; crash; credit; crime; cyberspace; data; day; digital; distance; document; doom; e911; eff; enforcement; equipment; fact; fcic; federal; fraud; free; fry; games; general; good; group; guy; hackers; hacking; hard; home; information; interest; jackson; kapor; kind; knight; know; knowledge; law; legion; lightning; line; lod; lot; mac; mail; money; neidorf; network; new; node; number; office; people; phoenix; phone; phone system; phrack; phreaks; place; point; police; power; prophet; psap; public; right; run; science; secret; security; service; software; ssc; state; steve; sundevil; switching; system; task; technical; telco; telephone; terminus; thackeray; thing; time; today; trouble; underground; unix; use; users; way; world; years; york
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        item: #2 of 10
          id: 12375
      author: Towers, Walter Kellogg
       title: Masters of Space Morse and the Telegraph; Thompson and the Cable; Bell and the Telephone; Marconi and the Wireless Telegraph; Carty and the Wireless Telephone
        date: None
       words: 52199
      flesch: 65
     summary: The companies began to place their wires underground, and Vail saw to it that the experiments with coverings for telephone wires were continued. While working and waiting and saving, Morse conceived the idea of laying telegraph wires beneath the water.
    keywords: american; apparatus; bell; cable; carty; communication; company; current; day; distance; experiments; field; great; idea; invention; line; little; man; marconi; means; messages; miles; morse; new; professor; receiving; sending; set; ship; signals; sound; station; success; system; telegraph; telegraph line; telephone; time; use; vail; waves; wheatstone; wireless; wires; work; years; york
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        item: #3 of 10
          id: 15617
      author: American School of Correspondence
       title: Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
        date: None
       words: 131770
      flesch: 62
     summary: In order to provide for the connection of a line in one of these simple switchboards with a line in another one, out of reach of the operator at the first, short connecting lines extending between the two switchboards are provided, these being called _transfer_ or _trunk_ lines. These fluctuations are transformed into line currents by the coil _4_.
    keywords: action; air; apparatus; armature; arrangement; battery; bell; capacity; carbon; case; cell; circuits; coil; company; condenser; connection; contact; cord circuit; core; cotton |; current; diaphragm; direction; drop; electric; employed; end; fig; force; form; generator; hand; hook; illustration; impedance; induction; iron; jack; line; line circuit; line system; line wire; magneto; means; number; office; operator; party line; plug; position; receiver; resistance; ringing; series; set; silk |; spring; station; subscriber; switchboard; system; telephone line; transmitter; type; use; winding; wire; zinc; | |
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        item: #4 of 10
          id: 23292
      author: Bassett, Sara Ware
       title: Ted and the Telephone
        date: None
       words: 50109
      flesch: 84
     summary: It was said at the factories that the reason the Fernalds went to New York and Florida and California was because of Mr. Laurie; that was the reason, too, why so many celebrated doctors kept coming to Pine Lea, and why both Mr. Fernald and Mr. Clarence were often so sharp and unreasonable. In fact, almost everything the Fernalds did or did not do, said or did not say, could be traced back to Mr. Laurie.
    keywords: bell; boy; clarence; course; day; falls; father; fernald; going; good; hazen; lad; laurie; lea; little; man; men; mills; money; new; night; pine; place; river; room; shack; ted; telephone; thing; thought; time; turner; want; water; watson; way; wharton; work
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        item: #5 of 10
          id: 32324
      author: Leinster, Murray
       title: Sam, This Is You
        date: None
       words: 7352
      flesch: 93
     summary: [Sidenote: Sam had led a peaceful and impecunious life--until a voice cut in on a phone and said: Sam, this is You] You are not supposed to believe this story, and if you ask Sam Yoder about it, he is apt to say that it's all a lie. If you did, Sam Yoder-- Sam didn't argue that point, for there was no argument to make.
    keywords: man; rosie; sam; telephone; time; truck; voice
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        item: #6 of 10
          id: 32672
      author: Garson, Clee
       title: Direct Wire
        date: None
       words: 5884
      flesch: 93
     summary: Due to our having Entered The Armed Forces of the U. S. GOD BLESS AMERICA Mort & Mike If you haven't guessed as much by now, the signatures at the bottom of that sign are those of the two former proprietors of the establishment, Mort Robbins and Mike Harrigan. DIRECT WIRE by CLEE GARSON Mort and Mike got strange calls on this phone; they didn't come through Central!
    keywords: booth; loony; mike; mort; telephone; time; voice
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        item: #7 of 10
          id: 33154
      author: Dolbear, A. E. (Amos Emerson)
       title: The Telephone An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as Involved in Its Action
        date: None
       words: 22528
      flesch: 65
     summary: If other sounds are used in the octave above or below this one, the number of vibrations of any given note may be found by either doubling or halving the number for the corresponding note in the given octave. It is noticeable that low talking can be heard more distinctly than when a great effort is made; but the sounds though distinct are not strong at any time, and other sounds seriously interfere with hearing.
    keywords: air; battery; coil; current; electricity; form; instrument; iron; length; magnet; motion; number; pitch; second; sound; vibrations; wave; wire; | |
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        item: #8 of 10
          id: 33437
      author: American School of Correspondence
       title: Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
        date: None
       words: 116592
      flesch: 61
     summary: _ A Automanual system 218 automatic distribution of calls 223 automatic switching equipment 222 building up a connection 224 characteristics of 218 operation 219 operator's equipment 220 setting up a connection 224 speed in handling calls 224 subscriber's apparatus 219 Automatic desk stand 158 Automatic Electric Company's telephone system 149 automatic sub-offices 201 connector 185 function of 185 location of 186 operation of 186 first selector operation 179 function of line switch 152 line switch 153, 163 bridge cut-off 173 circuit operations 167 guarding functions 173 line and trunk contacts 164 locking segment 172 master switch 171 relation of, to connectors 174 structure of 166 summary of operation 174 trunk ratio 165 trunk selection 165 multi-office system 196 party lines 202 release after conversation 196 rotary connector 202 second selector operation 182 selecting switches 153, 175 release mechanism 178 side switch 175 subdivision of subscribers' lines 152 subscribers' station apparatus 158 operation 160 bell and transmitter springs 160 ground springs 160 impulse springs 161 release springs 163 ringing springs 163 salient points 163 trunking 154 connector action 157 first selector action 156 line switch action 154 second selector action 156 two-wire automatic systems 203 two-wire and three-wire systems 157 underlying feature of trunking system 153 Automatic telephone systems 135 arguments against 135 attitude of public 141 complexity 136 expense 140 flexibility 140 subscriber's station equipment 142 automatic vs. manual 143 comparative costs 142 definition 135 methods of operation 143 fundamental idea 147 grouping of subscribers 145 local and inter-office trunks 148 Lorimer system 144 magnet vs. power-driven switches 144 Automatic telephone systems methods of operation multiple vs. trunking 145 outline of action 146 Strowger system 143 testing 148 trunking between groups 145 Automatic wall set 158 B Blocking sets 355 Busy test 48 busy-test faults 50 potential of test thimbles 49 principle 49 C Circuits 321 applications 322 composite 326 phantom 321 transmission over 324 transpositions 323 railway composite 327 ringing 327 simplex 324 Common-battery multiple switchboard 69 assembly 106 Dean multiple board 93 cord circuit 94 line circuit 93 listening key 94 ringing keys 94 test 94 Kellogg two-wire multiple board 84 battery feed 88 busy test 90 complete cord and line circuit 88 cord circuit 86 line circuit 85 summary of operation 91 supervisory signals 87 wiring of line circuit 92 multiple switchboard apparatus 97 jacks 99 lamp jacks 100 relays 101 Stromberg-Carlson multiple board 96 cord circuit 96 supervisory signals 97 test 97 Western Electric No. 1 relay board 69 capacity range 80 cord circuit 71 functions of distributing frames 77 line circuit 69 modified relay windings 79 operation 72 operator's circuit detail 75 order-wire circuits 78 pilot signals 79 relay mounting 80 testing--called line busy 75 testing--called line idle 74 wiring of line circuit 76 Western Electric No. 10 board 80 circuits 81 economy 84 operation 83 test 83 Common-battery switchboard 11 advantages of operation 11 common battery vs. magneto 12 cord circuit 20 battery supply 20 complete circuit 21 supervisory signals 21 cycle of operations 23 jacks 30 lamps 24 mounting 25 line signals 14 direct-line lamp 14 direct-line lamp with ballast 15 line lamp with relay 17 pilot signals 17 mechanical signals 27 Kellogg 28 Monarch 28 Western Electric 27 relays 28 switchboard assembly 31 Composite circuits 326 Connector 185 Cord circuit 20 Cord circuit battery supply 20 complete circuit 21 supervisory signals 21 Cord-rack connectors 66 Cummings-Wray selector 342 D Dean multiple board 93 Dispatchers' keys 339 Dispatching on electric railways 356 G Gill selector 341 H Housing central-office equipment 249 arrangement of apparatus in small manual offices 252 combined main and intermediate frames 253 floor plans for 252 types of line circuits 255 automatic offices 267 typical automatic office 270 central-office building 249 fire hazard 249 provision for cable runways 251 provision for employes 251 size of building 250 strength of building 250 large manual office 256 I Intercommunicating systems 282 common-battery systems 283 Kellogg plug type 284 Kellogg push-button type 285 Monarch system 287 Western Electric system 285 definition 282 limitations 282 for private-branch exchanges 290 simple magneto system 282 J Jacks 30 K Kellogg mechanical signal 28 Kellogg trunk circuits 125 Kellogg two-wire multiple board 84 Keyboard wiring 67 L Lamp mounting 25 Lamps 24 Line signals 14 direct-line lamp 14 direct-line lamp with ballast 15 line lamp with relay 17 pilot signals 17 Line switch 163 Long-distance switching 293 definitions 293 center-checking 297 operators' orders 294 by call circuits 294 by telegraph 294 particular party calls 295 switching through local board 293 ticket passing 296 trunking 295 high-voltage toll trunks 295 through ringing 295 two-number calls 294 use of repeating coil 293 waystations 297 Lorimer automatic system 144, 205 central-office apparatus 208 connective division 210 sectional apparatus 209 switches 213 interconnector 214 interconnector selector 214 primary connector 213 rotary switch 213 secondary connector 214 signal transmitter controller 214 operation 215 subscriber's station equipment 206 M Magneto multiple switchboard 53 branch-terminal multiple board 58 arrangement of apparatus 61 magnet windings 61 operation 60 field of utility 53 modern magneto multiple board 63 assembly 66 cord circuit 64 test 62 Magneto multiple switchboard series-multiple board 54 defects 57 operation 56 Measured service 310 local service 316 meter method 316 prepayment method 318 ticket method 316 rates 310 toll service 311 long haul 311 short haul 311 timing toll connections 312 units of charging 311 Mechanical signals 27 Kellogg 28 Monarch 28 Western Electric 27 Mercury-arc rectifier circuits 237 Monarch visual signal 28 Multi-office exchanges, necessity for 109 Multiple switchboard 43 busy test 48 cord circuits 46 diagram showing principle of 47 double connections 46 field of each operator 51 field of utility 43 influence of traffic 52 line signals 45 multiple feature 43 P Phantom circuit 321 Pilot signals 17 Plug-seat switch 38 Pole changers for harmonic The complete cord and line circuits of the Kellogg two-wire system are shown in Fig.
    keywords: answering; apparatus; automatic; battery; battery system; calling; calls; central; circuits; connection; contacts; cord circuit; current; cut; electric; exchange; fig; ground; illustration; jack; key; line; line circuit; line jacks; line lamp; line relay; line signal; line switch; magnet; multiple; number; office; operation; operator; party line; plug; position; ringing; second; selector; service; set; station; subscriber; supervisory; switchboard; system; telephone; telephone circuit; telephone line; test; time; trunk; trunk circuit; trunk line; wire
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        item: #9 of 10
          id: 59297
      author: Sheldon, Walter J.
       title: Your Time is Up
        date: None
       words: 3319
      flesch: 92
     summary: I haven't got time to play games. By definition, time is a series of infinitesimally small moments in succession.
    keywords: course; future; time; voice; zon
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        item: #10 of 10
          id: 819
      author: Casson, Herbert Newton
       title: The History of the Telephone
        date: None
       words: 55274
      flesch: 73
     summary: It was beyond all argument superior to the telephones then in use and the lessees of Bell telephones clamored with one voice for a transmitter as good as Edison's. It is conceivable that cables of telephone wires could be laid underground, or suspended overhead, connecting by branch wires with private dwellings, shops, etc., and uniting them through the main cable with a central office.
    keywords: american; bell; bell company; bell system; bell telephone; boston; city; companies; company; country; day; days; dollars; electric; fact; general; half; hubbard; invention; line; little; man; men; miles; new; new york; office; patent; people; place; public; sanders; states; stock; switchboard; talk; telegraph; telephone; telephone business; telephone company; telephone exchange; telephone men; telephone service; telephone system; telephone wires; time; union; united; use; vail; watson; way; western; wire; work; world; years; york; young
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