Friday--if I may so address you--over on that switchboard you will find a small lever-control.
An enigmatic light glimmered in the Eurasian's green eyes as they watched the Negro go to the switchboard and put thumb and forefinger on the control.
We passed the telephone switchboardand entered the elevator, getting off at the fifth floor.
Just as a call from "509" flashed up, Long slipped the rings off his little fingers and loosened the white rats on the telephone switchboard itself.
Down in the hotel lobby, with his followers, the Chinaman paused before the telephone switchboard where two girls were at work.
Behind Craig, in his closet, Dan was reaching for the switchboard button.
He had gone back of the switchboard and the Negro, still unsuspicious, watched without understanding what it was all about.
Still again we paused at the telephone switchboard--a switchboard large enough to take care of the entire business of a city of the size of Springfield, the capital of Illinois.
Illustration: The switchboard of the Chinatown telephone exchange is set in a shrine and the operators are dressed in Chinese silks] "If the gentlemans would wish to see some other apartments--?
It is often possible for a public library to obtain a sufficient service by having a wire from the town hall switchboard to the library.
For a complicated internal service of inter-communications, the telephone is much superior to speaking tubes, as the switchboard system enables the user to communicate with any department without the need of extra tubes.
The office boy was out on an errand and in his absence the switchboard was Miss Beach's care.
But the switchboard girl had evidently been listening in and plugged her through, because she heard the throb of another ring, a click of a receiver and then--then Rodney's voice.
The telephone switchboard in the lobby gave her an idea.
The building was pretty well deserted by now, and against the silence he heard the buzzer in his telephone switchboard proclaiming insistently that some one was trying to get him on the telephone.
There evidently was some trouble with the telephone number which Henry had called; the girl at the switchboard was apologizing in frightened panic, and Henry's voice, loud and abusive, came more plainly through the partition.
Mr. Spearman says he will give you five minutes now," the switchboard girl said.
There was a telephone upon Corvet's desk which undoubtedly connected with the switchboard in the general office.
It would be possible for him to cut in somewhere between the switchboard and the conduits.
He either tapped in on the wires the night Mr. Stockbridge was murdered or got behind the switchboard and called up the library 'phone.
No one talked with Stockbridge through the switchboardat Gramercy Hill, at or near that hour.
A junction-box," he said, "is merely a small switchboard where the conduit ends and the house connections begin.
Jock left his desk and strolled up to get the switchboard operator's confirmation of his guess.
Mr. Berg wants to see you right away," came the voice of the switchboard operator.
Our switchboard is about as big as an old-fashioned china closet and has three hundred drops.
Below the switchboard is a broad shelf in which are set the miniature lamps and from which project the brass plugs in rows.
Then all the telephone wires of a certain district converge at a central station, and each pair of wires is connected with its own particular switch at the switchboard of the station.
The operators sit before the switchboard in high swivel chairs in a long row, with their backs to the centre of the room.
The cost of electrical energy at the switchboard in a water-power station is subject to wide variations, owing to the different investments necessary in the hydraulic work per unit of power developed.
The alternating generators in a station of equal capacity and voltage would require a large switchboard fitted with bus-bars, oil switches, and automatic circuit-breakers.
Wire-room Back of Switchboard in Power-station on French Broad River, North Carolina.
This completes the switchboard equipment, which is, therefore, very simple.
The switchboard at which they placed him had been good enough for the other boys who had been called upon to operate it, and indeed it represented the best thought and effort of the leaders in the telephone world.
As Mr. Carty himself puts it: The little switchboards of that day were a good deal like the automobiles of some years ago--one was likely to spend more time under the switchboard than, sitting at it!
For this purpose he designed and installed the first metallic circuit, multiple switchboard to go into service.
Certainly Carty made these switchboard troubles the first stepping-stone in his climb to the top in the field of telephone engineering.
He was placed in charge of the switchboard department of the Western Electric Company, the concern which manufactures the apparatus for the telephone company.
At the switchboard there's still ginger in me, but with the pen I'm one of the "also rans.
The traffic runs flood-high and the station men gossip of the whispered complaints of the tug-crews, but the man at the switchboard only smiles.
Now there was a switchboard out in the hall with a web of lines running to a dozen girls at a half dozen desks wedged into the outer office.
Pivoting, he said, "Colonel, you and your captains will be stationed by that switchboard out there.
Without giving his name to the young woman at the hotel switchboard he asked her to tell Singlebury, upon his return, that a gentleman would call him up on business of importance some time between twelve and one o'clock.
In the midst of this he broke off to take up his desk telephone and, when the girl at the private switchboard upstairs answered, bade her ring for him a certain private number, not to be found in the telephone directory.
From the switchboard it is allowed to pass through the various street mains, from which it is finally led to lamps, motors, etc.
From the switchboard the current flows out through the streets in large conductors, or mains, the supply being kept up by the dynamos, just as water-pressure is kept up by the constant working of pumps.
I introduced this last test because the hitting of the right holes in the switchboard of the telephone office is of great importance.
Before everything withers completely, you rush to the switchboard and turn on the capillary attraction again.
And suppose you stood in front of a switchboard with each switch labeled with the name of the law it would shut off.
Now that you have found out something about capillary attraction, suppose that you should go to the imaginary switchboard again and tamper with some other law of nature.
You have not yet touched any of the most dangerous switches on the imaginary switchboard of universal laws.
I want to hold you in my arms--to--[the negress snatches out the peg from the switchboard and vanishes.
On the table, opposite every chair, a small switchboard with a dial.
This switchboard is very similar to those used in telephone exchanges.
In each one is introduced a pyrometer, connected electrically with a switchboard located in a separate building.
This has been accomplished through the invention of the multiple switchboard and a great number of inventions and improvements in all the apparatus used in the transmission of speech.
He pressed a little lever on his switchboard and spoke into the mouthpiece of his head-set.
Farrell was there, headphones clamped to his ears, one hand on the little switchboard at the base of the glass dome that kept him in touch with every station on the ship.
But that act has loosened the power in the house back of the switchboard out along the wires, and perhaps lighted a whole section of the city.
And the spirit switchboard does not yield to the unskilled touch.
But I grabbed at the switchboard and called up Mr. Ingham.
The switchboardcalled him imperatively as he spoke, and he reluctantly consented to ring up the superintendent.
