The 1948 document that proposed the transistor's name, with several alternatives and a ballot: http://www.telecomarchive.com/docs/bsp-archive/Letters%20and...

The attention paid to facility specification details in Public Switched Telecom Networks makes you aware of just how much copper wire was involved in a Central Office and the special needs of -48V DC power plants, or 21-inch rack transmission and radio tower equipment. Just a different world to the ISO-22237 / TIA942 / BISCI / Uptime specifications used for Data Centers now.

heh, found a typo on page 3 (pubic instead of public): http://www.telecomarchive.com/docs/bsp-archive/004/004-405-0...

Also interesting how some pages use a handwritten font.