Wire Makes the World Go Round: A Company Ahead of Its Time
For many years, Western Electric Co. (New York) was one of the largest wire processors in the world. The company boasted that it manufactured “43,000 varieties of telephone apparatus.” It invested heavily in state-of-the-art automated equipment to assemble complex wire harnesses used in telephone switching systems and other advanced telecommunications gear. Western Electric engineers also developed numerous time-saving innovations in-house, which ASSEMBLY frequently reported on.