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SUBSCRIBERS' INSTRUMENTS 



There has been considerable variety in these since the early 

 days of telephony in Austria. The Vienna Private Telegraph 

 Company commenced with a modification of the Blake as a 

 transmitter in Vienna and Briinn, and ordinary Bell receivers ; 

 while the Telephone Company of Austria adopted the Gower- 

 Bell with a magneto ringer, in Prague, and Blake-Bells in their 

 other towns, all their instruments being supplied by the Consoli- 

 dated Telephone Construction and Maintenance Company of 

 London. The Linz - Urfahr 

 Undertakers went in for a 

 modified Edison lamp-black 

 button transmitter. It speaks 

 well for the foresight of all the 

 Austrian telephone engineers 

 that they strictly avoided 

 battery ringing, adopting 

 magnetos from the outset, and 

 have thus saved themselves 

 from the embarrassment and 

 expense now being experienced 

 in connection with batteries 

 in France and Germany. Lat- 

 terly the Vienna Company has 

 adopted the set shown in fig. 2. 

 The transmitter is sometimes 

 of the Schaffler and Korner 

 types, but is now generally the well-known Deckert, which was 

 introduced into the United Kingdom by the General Electric 

 Company of London in 1891 as the * Runnings Cone,' and adopted 

 by the author for the Mutual Telephone Company's exchange in 

 Manchester with happy results. It has since been largely used 

 by the National Telephone Company in London. The Vienna 

 set of instruments cannot be commended as comprising the best 

 possible arrangements. The magneto has no automatic cut-in 

 for the generator coils, so the button g must be pressed when a 



FIG. 2 



