398 BELL SYSTEM TECHNICAL JOURNAL 



1940 issue of the Bell Telephone Quarterly to commemorate a quarter 

 century of transcontinental telephone service. Its subtitle is revealing: 

 "From the Solution of the Specific Problems of Transcontinental Telephony 

 Have come Changes and Advances in the Art Which Have Affected Every 

 Aspect of the Service." The author of that story is the individual who had 

 the responsibility of leadership for the success of the transcontinental 

 telephony project. 



It is a project which has continued to grow mightily until the original 

 phantom group has become some five hundred circuits distributed over five 

 cross-country routes four of which are open-wire lines, and the fifth and latest 

 an underground cable, with what might be called reverberative effects that 

 have worked as leaven in every phase of telephony. 



And finally, as the closing paragraph, I quote the conclusion of Jewett's 

 own article, because it so well typifies the spirit of the man himself and also 

 expresses in a minimum of words what has unquestionably been his most 

 important contribution, viz., an organization of research scientists and de- 

 velopment engineers and designers working harmoniously as a composite 

 mind upon a single problem of vast technical ramifications as well as in- 

 finite details. 



"It has been my good fortune to have had a part in a great adventure, some of 

 whose principal features I have attempted to sketch out for you. I would be less 

 than honest, and far less than generous, however, if I allowed any of you to de- 

 part with a false impression of my personal contribution. The achievements 

 embody the contributions of many men, my associates (some of whom I do not 

 even know), working through the years as a team of which I have been a member." 



