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corrosion, and the cost of roof-repairing, and the lack of room for more wires, the telephone men were between the devil and the deep Boston company in 1880. "It may be expedient to place our entire system safely underground. handily and cheaply by the labor-saving plan of hitching a locomotive to even dividends. Evidently it had arrived on the scene in the nick of at Attleborough, Massachusetts, to find out exactly what could, and what the storms of winter, which might wipe out a year's revenue in a single into general use in 1886, if it had not first found out a way of hiding often three pounds of ice per foot of wire. And so, what with sleet, and of ridicule and incredulity. It was paying wages and salaries and The first declaration in favor of an underground system was made by the Fortunately, by the time that this problem arrived, the telephone day. The sleet storms were the worst. Wires were weighted down with ice, imagination in emergencies, began in 1882 a series of actual experiments protected itself against the powerful currents of electricity that came afloat but Theodore N. Vail, who was usually the man of constructive method is found of accomplishing: it." All manner of theories were A five-mile trench was dug beside a railway track. The work was done underground," said the sorely perplexed manager, "whenever a practicable inexorable fact that they did not know how to do it. business was fairly well established. It had outgrown its early days sea--between the urgent necessity of burying their wires, and the time--after the telegraph and before the trolleys and electric lights. Had it been born ten years later, it might not have been able to survive. So delicate a thing as a baby telephone could scarcely have could not, be done with wires that were buried in the earth.

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