Chapter 2
Telegraphy and telephony
On 15 September 1924, Alan Blumlein took up his first formal position of work at International Western Electric (IWE), a division of Bell Laboratories of America (soon to become International Standard Electric Corporation and later still Standard Telephones & Cables). His salary was to be £225 per annum, quite a reasonable sum for the time considering that Blumlein, just 21 years of age, was fresh out of City and Guilds. The industry that he had joined was about to go through a revolutionary period as telegraphy and telephony spread across Europe at an ever quickening pace with the introduction of new long-distance telephone lines and exchanges.
This was therefore, an opportune time to join a company such as ...
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