# THE TELEPHONE SECTION

THE TELEPHONE SECTION Produced: 1917 Description On Signal Corps activities at Brownsville, Tex. Shows vehicles and mounted troops of the section. A field switchboard is set up and wires attached to it. Lance poles are dropped from a truck at intervals along the ground. Holes are dug for telephone poles. Wire is unreeled from a truck. The poles are set in position and wire attached to them. Wire is spliced to the field switchboard and messages are received. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/35498

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1917
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/111-m-125)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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