![History--early telephone use of wind generator [telecom]](https://forums.cabling-design.com/media/28008/conversions/603695ae6b0f74.60681363-medium.jpg)
In 1947, Pacific Telephone ran an ad describing how it uses wind- generators in the desert to power long distance line amplifiers (repeaters).
Other parts of the same ad talk about postwar construction to handle the high calling volume.
[For the] full advertisement, please see:
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