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ENGINEERING
Producing hundreds of dependable telephone products at the lowest possible cost is a constant challenge to the ingenuity of engineers at Western Electric . . . manufacturing and supply unit of the Bell Telephone System.
At one Western Electric factory, a fully automated process turns out telephone wire. At another, high precision glass enclosed switches are assembled, adjusted and tested in one continuous operation. Both represent a better product at less cost, and contributions from several areas of W. E. engineering . . . mechanical, electrical, chemical, civil, many others.
But the technical challenge goes beyond existing telephone products. When our Bell System teammate, the Bell Telephone Laboratories, creates a new product, its introduction into the telephone system depends on whether it can be manufactured by existing means. If not, the search begins to find a new method or new materials or perhaps new machinery to do the job. To intensify the search for advances in these areas Western has established a new engineering research center near Princeton, N.J.
The real hope for new developments, of course, rests with the individual engineers... with their highly personal creative attack on the unknown and the untried. It was to prepare and inspire them for such effort that Western Electric established its Graduate Engineering Training program. . .full-time and off-the-job at special study centers.
The efforts of our engineers have helped make possible good, dependable, continually improving Bell telephone service at a reasonable price.
MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY
VOICE OF THE ENGINEER. The Western Electric Engineer, a quarterly publication, reflects engineering thought and achievement at W.E. Besides wide circulation within the Bell System, it is read in many non-Bell education, engineering and business circles.
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ENGINEERING CHALLENGE. The DEW Line of radar stations, spanning the Arctic circle, demanded all Western's engineering know-how. As prime contractor, W.E. pushed this job to completion in just 32 months.
MAIN JOB of W.E. engineers is helping make telephone products for the Bell System, like the inter-office telephone being tested above. They also work in other areas of our telephone job— distribution, installation, purchasing.
GEIGER COUNTER is used to determine whether radioisotope test solution has penetrated seal of undersea voice amplifier under pressure. These vital amplifiers are made by W.E. for use in trans-oceanic telephone cables.
BASIC STUDIES of new manufacturing materials, processes and mechanisms are now underway at our Engineering Research Center. This intense research will help us take advantage of rapidly unfolding scientific developments.