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

Titolo: An important telephone pole, that was going to fall after a snow storm, was saved on the western front
Oggetto: en Technology; en Communication
Article Title and/or Image Caption: It Was Caught Before It Fell
extracted 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.
Autore secondario: British official photograph (Image copyright)
Lingua: eng
Copertura temporale: Interwar period
Data di rilascio: 1919-01
pagine: 35
Diritti: Public domain (Google digitized)
Sorgente: Google Books
Archived by: Davide Donà; Marco Bortolami (editor)
Copertura territoriale: Western Front of World War I