''The Post Office Electrical Engineers' Journal'' (POEEJ) was a quarterly technical journal published by the Institution of Post Office Electrical Engineers between 1908 and 1982. 74 volumes were published in all.
When Post Office Telecommunications became
British Telecom in 1981, shortly before the latter's
privatisation, the Institution changed its name to the Institution of British Telecommunications Engineers. Publication of the POEEJ then ceased in favour of a new journal, ''British Telecommunications Engineering''.
The POEEJ documented the development of Britain's telecommunications network throughout most of the 20th century. Special issues marked key events such as the end of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
, the construction of
TAT-1 and the introduction of
Subscriber trunk dialling.
According to one source, in 1972 the journal had 38,000 readers, of which about 4,500 were not Post Office employees.
[''How the Secret Telephone War Came to Britain''. Sunday Times, October 15th 1972.]
See also
* ''
Pochtovo-Telegrafnyi Zhurnal''
*
Telecommunications in the United Kingdom
Telecommunications in the United Kingdom have evolved from the early days of the telegraph to modern broadband and mobile phone networks with Internet services.
History
National Telephone Company (NTC) was a British telephone company from 188 ...
References
External links
BT Group ArchivesIndex of ''POEEJ'' articles at the ITP
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Telecommunications in the United Kingdom
Defunct journals of the United Kingdom
Publications established in 1908
Publications disestablished in 1982
1908 establishments in the United Kingdom