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Until recently the various Bell operating companies have adhered, in their small exchange work, to the manual restoring method, while most of the so-called independent operating companies have adhered to the automatic self-restoring drops.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster

The drops are the electrically self-restoring type shown in Fig.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel

This class is furthermore subdivided into the self-restoring and the non-self-restoring varieties.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose

Such drops are termed self-restoring drops, and, since a drop and jack are often made structurally a unitary piece of apparatus, they are frequently called combined drops and jacks.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster