An important telephone pole, that was going to fall after a snow storm, was saved on the western front

Title (Dublin Core): An important telephone pole, that was going to fall after a snow storm, was saved on the western front
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Communication
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): It Was Caught Before It Fell
extracted text (Extract Text): HAD this pole fallen and the wires been injured, hundreds of
telephones on the western front would have been put out of
commission. - Realizing the seriousness of this, these men worked
desperately to keep it up.

A heavy snow-storm, followed by a freezing rain, weighed
down the wires with frozen snow. The wires would have suc-
ceeded in dragging down the pole, owing to its in secure. foothold
in the soft dirt, had not these men interfered.
Contributor (Dublin Core): British official photograph (Image copyright)
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): Interwar period
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1919-01
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 1, 1919
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 35
Rights (Dublin Core): Public domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Davide Donà; Marco Bortolami (editor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): Western Front of World War I