The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-18
Talking Between New York and
Washington.


New York special: "Hullo, hullo."
"Who are you?"
"a reporter for the World. Who are
your"
"I'm the World correspondent at
Washington"
The reporter was in the Office OF the
United Lines Telegraph Company in
this city, and the correspondent was
at Wizards Hotel in the cap
ital OF the United States. The con-
versalion was the first public com.
munication held orally between the
two cities. The distance Is 22S miles.
The means by which 1t was car
ried on was a telephone equipped
with the multiple transmitter,
patented by VIM. @. Turnbull OF Bal
timore, Md, February 20, 1886 There
were at the New York end OF the wire,
Mr.. @. T. Barb eric, chief electrician of
the United Lines Company, Mr.. W. l..
Paine, who controls the Turnbull
patent; DR.. II. E. Waite, an expert
electrician, who had control OF the
test, and a large number OF reporters.
Mr.. A. w. Roae, an associate of Dr..
Waite, had charge Of the test in Wash
ington, and at his end of the wire
were a number of f1ends--Gen. A. j..
Warner of Ohio; Sir Alexander Stu
art, Prime Minister OF Australia, his
son and Mr.. John Adams OF New
York; Congressman James Floyd and
Col. Thomas Cox OF Chicago; s. T..
Cowl, George B. Corkhill, and sixty
correspondents, representing all the
leading papers Of the country. The
first message sent over the wire was
one from the World correspondent.
Expert Waite took the telephone
and conversed with the junior DR..
Rogers, the inventor OF the Pan-Elec-
trio, at some length. He also con-
versed with newspaper men in Boston.
Then DR.. Waite asked a Baltimore
correspondent how the girls were in
his town, and learned that they were
as charming as ever. Prof. W. j.
Green OF the Smithsonian Institute
asked to communicate with the World
reporter,
hWhat do you think Of the test ?" he
was asked, r
ait marks an era in the history OF
electrical science" he answered.
From q score OF people it was
learned that the weather in Washing
ton was exceedingly mild and pleas
ant, and on inquiry they were in
formed that the same condition oil
things existed here. President Cleve-
land, il was stated, was well, and in.
tended taking ride later in the day,
A correspondent of a Chicago paper
inquired after the health OF Jake
Sharp, and wanted to know il BILLY
Moloney had returned to the city"
He was informed that Jacob was do
ing as well as could be expected under
existing circumstances, and that Mr.
Moloney was ext ected home some
day. DR.. Waite explained the princi
pie Of the multiplex trausmitter to 9
reporter of the World.
"The object OF the invention" sale
he, "is to provide transmitter hav
ing a large capacity for transmitting
electrical undulations corresponding
with the waves produced by a sound
and at the same time one that will no
require special adjustment, but viii
always remain in good order. 1t differ
from the Blake transmitter in that thu
carbon in the latter has but a singh
point Of contact, while this which VI
have been using has twenty. Tn
sound is increased in proportion to tn
number Of points of contact. Our in
vention is simpler aud cheaper thai
the Blake t'ansmitter. An electrode
J the surface by which electricity passe
in and out of other media. We clair
as our invention the combination G
our diaphragm and the electrod
carried thereby; the pivoted per
, dant carbon electrodes wnicl
make contact with the electrod
: Of the diaphragm and a cal
l bon pivot on which the electrodes ar
8 mounted also the combination, in
tIansmitter, Of swinging, hinged o
pivoted carbon electrode and a carbo
pin or bearing on which it is hinged
= We further claim the combination c
the diaphragm, series Of pivoteC
/ pendant, swinging electrodes, forme
, OF cylindrical pieces Of carbon, whic
. are perforated at the ends to forr
/, their bearings, the car or rod o
which said electrodes are pivoted, an
, an opposing eleCttode upon whic
they rest by gravity. 1t will be onl
few weeks before we have the Worl
connected by telephone with Wash
ingtou, as we'll as other cities, IL vi