National Republican., 1883-03-17
rrLErnoN1c WONDERS.
Talking Through Seven Hundred and
Einv Miles OF wiro-A Washing q tonian's

Talking Through Seven Hundred and
Eiftv Miles OF wire-A Washin II tonian's
Invention.
Whom the telephone was first invented the
popular Imagination took fire and predicted
that men in Washington would be able to
talk with men in New York as easily us they
could with only the distance of a table between
them Popular imagination has been iust-
fed and It's prophecies fulfilled. II has at last
been demonstrated that man mt a telephone
can converse with another $50 miles away.
And more He can have his telephone nailed
up by the door transom in his room in Boston,
and, while lying in bed twenty feet away,
whisper stock advces to his broker in Chi
cago and make love uninterruptedly TO his
sweetheart in Bismarck or in Denver And
this Crowning triumph In the science of
acoustics has been wrought by Washington
man, and is emphatically q Washington iu-
ycntion.
DR.. Myron J.. Baxter, of No. 1875 L street
northwest, in this city, has patented his in
vcution of telephone transmitter and re-
ccivcr, which supersedcs tho telegraph for all
purposes except whore writing is necessary,
aud does away with cxorbitant charges for
ten words or less between parties at distances,
when neither is deaf nor dumb.
Prof G. H. Buell., of this city, arrived in
Cleveland last Monday afternoon, at $3.50
Baxter transmitter and receiver on the wires
of the Postal Telegraph company. At the
same time, by previous arrangement, another
tansmittcr and receiver, under control of
Prof Thompson, were placed in the COM
panys Office, No. III Broadway, New York
city, and after an hour spent in adjusting the
| instruments some prominent persons were in
vitcd 20 witness the tests. Among these were
the electricians of the Bell Telephone, West
crn Union and Postal Telegraph companies.
\ number Of receivers were attached 50 that
many persons could hear at once. Conversa-
ton was carried on just the same as if both
telephones were in the same city. So satisfac-
tory were the tests that Mr.. Eckhcrt, the
vice president and general superintendent of
the Western Union Telegraph company, and
his experts expressed themselves as wanting
nothing better.
The conversations were carried on from
Monday to Wednesday inclusive, and were
purpOsCly made severe. The people ut Clevc-
land distinctly heard conversation carried on
in the room in New York. At one time they
heard this:
Where is Prof GrOy?"
up stgirs."
"Go call him. Its working beautifully"
In New York q further test was made. Hive
miles of wire were arranged between two Of
Baxter's telephones and words spoken sixty
three feet from the transmittcr were dis
tinctly heard at the other end of the line.
Whispered words seventeen feet from the
transinittcr were also distinctly audible.
Still further, the receiver was placed on a
thick sheet OF glass, which latter was placed
ON table, and persons sitting around the
table distinctly heard the conversation of
parties five miles away. This last conversa-
ton, however, was not carried on in u
whisper
Baxter's telephone transmitter and receiver
patents are owned by the Overland Telephone
company, of New York city, K. G.. Dunn
president. This company now proposes to
| establish q telephone line between their
office, No. III Broadway, New York city, and
some suitable location in this city and invites
any one who desires to do so to come and
converse with his friends in New York. The
Importance Of this wonderful invention can
not be properly overstatcd