374 BELL SYSTEM TECHNICAL JOURNAL 



"My reason for thinking that the phase of the investigation which concerns the 

 characteristics of loaded Hnes should be handled directly by us is that much work 

 of this kind will have to be done by us in connection with our phantoming, phantom 

 loading, duplex cable design, coil design, and superimposed telegraph work and 

 unnecessary duplication can undoubtedly be accomplished by combining the two 

 problems. 



"The various phases of the problem are so interlocked that the utmost co- 

 operation, between ourselves and the Western Electric Company, and between 

 the various men engaged on the problem is absolutely essential to the accomplish- 

 ment of successful results, and as under the present organization this Engineering 

 Department is responsible for the specification of what shall or shall not go into 

 the operating plant, I believe, as noted above, that the immediate supervision of 

 the problem as a whole had best be located here. What I have in mind is that this 

 problem should be handled in much the same way as the problem of phantom load- 

 ing the duplex cables was handled. In this case part of the detailed work has been 

 done by us and part by Western Electric Company, and while the general super- 

 vision has been with us there had been the utmost cooperation between all con- 

 cerned, whether here or at the Western Electric Company. 



"With proper handling and with proper men engaged on the various phases of 

 the problem, I feel very confident that fruitful results should be obtained within a 

 reasonable time." 



It was most logical that the responsibility for the general direction of all 

 this work should be assigned to Jewett in the beginning, and that he should 

 continue to hold this broad responsibility when he was transferred to the 

 Western Electric Company on April 1, 1912 to become an Assistant Chief 

 Engineer, reporting to C. E. Scribner, the Chief Engineer. 



Organizing of Personnel to Do tiie W^ork 



The new work order was officially sent to the Western Electric Company 

 on May 27, 1911, to cover that part of the work which had been delegated 

 to the recently organized Research Branch of the Western's Engineering 

 Department, under the direction of E. H. Colpitts, its first Research En- 

 gineer. Other Western engineering units joined m the development work 

 later on. 



Early in 1911, Jewett's own department acquired new personnel primarily 

 to work on the "loaded lines characteristics" phase of the fundamental 

 repeater study and on repeater circuit questions. These were R. S. Hoyt, 

 transferred from the Special Development Laboratory of the Western Elec- 

 tric Company, and John Mills, fresh from a teaching job at Colorado College. 

 At one time or other, practically all other members of Jewett's rapidly 

 expanding department worked on the transcontinental line problems. As 

 a research consultant, Dr. G. A. Campbell made important theoretical con- 

 tributions. The American Company organization set-up as of December 

 1, 1911, after the 1911 crop of engmeering graduates had been assimilated, 

 is given on page 403. 



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