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Finnish engineers having been wise enough to eschew galvanic 

 batteries for ringing purposes. Originally the instruments were of 

 American manufacture, but latterly the market has been monopo- 

 lised by Messrs. Ericsson & Co., of Stockholm, and by one or 

 two Christiania firms. 



The exchange of the Helsingfors Telephone Company, of 

 which a view is given in fig. 36, is fitted with a Western Electric 

 multiple for 1,400 lines ; the other switch-boards are non-multiple 

 and of varied design and manufacture. 



