The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07
The Talking Telephone.
THE LAST SENSATION A REACHED NEW
ORLEANS AT LAST-AND WILL BE
EXHIBITED AT GRUNEWALD
HAL TO-DAY.
HALL
[From the N. O. Times, April 1st.I

From the N. o. Times, April 1st.I
For some time9bast it has been hintet
in scientific circles that Professor Bell
the inventor of the
ELECTRIC TELEPHONE,
or the instrument by which converse
ton can be transmitted by a current o
electricity over Geographic wire ant
the gradatiOlls of the voice indicated a
city, making preparation for All exhibi
ton of his instrument, as well as fol
the patent which he now uses.
Another object in his coming here
was to select a location in which there
was frequent fogs, or, rather, where the
atmosphere was moist, that in his ex,
periments he might more clearly pro.
vide in his telephone for the resistance
caused by such fogs or atmosphere.
Yesterday Prof. Bell completed all Of
his arrangements for
THE FIRST GRAND EXPERIMENT,
which will be made to-day. He was
compelled to select Sunday as the day
for his experiments, as that is the only
day during the week that the lines OF
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany are wen partially idle, and to
make the experiment a success he must
secure one of those lines.
Yesterday he perfected arrangements
with the telegraph company for the use
OF one of the New York wires, reach
ing that citysyia Memphis, Louisville,
Cincinnati, and thence through Pitts
burg to Philadelphia and New York.
pertinent was made last night from the
v,apotJnr room ISrn tn NnUr Vorlr ~
which there was present several scien-
tifc gentlemen and several members of
the press. By the aid of one or two
"repeatersn repeating instruments) at
different points along the line, the ex-
pertinent was found to be in the greatest
degree satisfactory, the sound made by
the New York operator
BEING DISTINCTLY HEARD
in the dome Of the telephone attached
to this end of the line, and the voice of
the New York operator could be dis
tinctly heard as he gave the state OF
the weather, the working of the line,
ETC., and one inquiry he made, jokingly,
as to thesarrival of the Louisiana com
mission, was distinctly heard on the
opposite side of the room.
Having succeeded almost beyond ex-
pectation in working the telephone
over a circuit nearly two thousand
miles in length, Prof. Bell, upon the
urgent request of those present, agreed
to give to-day a
FREE PUBLIC RECEPTION,
and at once secured the use of the
wires for to-day, making arrangements
to have them connected at 1 p. m.
The telegraph office being too limited
in room, Prof. Bell secured the Grune-
valid Hall. and has had stretched from
that building to the telegraph building
a " loop" or line, which will be attached
+toe-2e New York wire at the time
named.
This will be connected with the tele-
phone, which will be located upon the
stage in the hall, and at 1:13 p. m. (New
Gltans time) the first public expert
ment is to be made.
In order to accommodate those who
have little if any knowledge of cleo
tricity and its various applications, the
professor will give a short history of
the invention of Morse, and the ways
in which it was first used as a means of
conveying communications. He will
then follow the improvements down to
the present day, when, he claims, he
has the most wonderful of all inyen-
tons.
ahavsms-the experiments which will
be free to al, he desires that the. strict
est, order De prestnsoednatil he has the
repeating "armatnresn and needle in
dicators" perfectly adjusted, when he
promises that he will permit the aus
dience to hear while in their seats, the
voice of a person who is at that instant
occupying a seat in the telegraph Office
in New York.