Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1928 — Page 20

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HUGE BATTERIES FORM PART OF PHONESYSTEM Power Plant at Exchange Gives Energy to Transmitter as Receiver Is Lifted. Sufficient power to start and light more than 75,000 automobiles is contained in the twenty-two batteries used by the Indiana Bell Telephone Company to supply current for operation of the 80,000 Indianapolis home and office telephones. Seven of the huge batteries are located at the main power plant, two each in the Drexel, Cherry, Belmont, Irvington, Lincoln and Washington exchanges, and one each in the Talbot, Hemlock and Humboldt offices. Voice Current Unsatlsfacy Early advertisements of the telephone business, back in .1877, acclaimed the telephone a superior instrument in that “it needs no battery and has no complicated machinery.” In those days, the subscriber’s voice acting on the diaphram of the original instrument now known as the receiver, generated a weak electric current. This system soon proved unsatisfactory and a transmitter working on the principle of varying the resistance in an electric circuit was adopted. At first the wet cell, and later the dry cell battery was used, giving the subscriber the power plant in his own instrument. Power From Exchange From this has evolved the present system whereby the power

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plant at the telephone exchange supplies the necessary energy to the transmitters when the subscriber lifts the receiver. All subscribers talking at one time are connected with the single central office battery. This battery forms a common part of the talking circuits. Proper design of the battery and wiring limts the tendenccy for fragments of conversation being overheard on another subscriber's line.

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