The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25
1t Will Make More Noise and One Does
Not Have to Stand 40 Close.

| 1t Will Make More Noise and One Does
Not Have to Stand Close.
! From the philadelphia Times.
According to a report from London,
an ingenious and desirable improve
ment of the telephone has just been
perfected The inventor is French
man, M. German, who is attached to
the French Ministry of Posts and Tele-
graphs. 1t occurred to him some time
ago that theusefulness of the telephone
| would be greatly enhanced if the
sounds transmitted over it could be
heard at a greater distance and with
more distinctness than is the case at
present, and he at once set to work to
| make an improvement in this direction.
New, the story goes, he has 50 adapt
ed the telegraph wire that the micro
phone is made to develop and intensity
the vibration received, the result being
| that it is unnecessary to place the re-
| ceiver to the ear or stand with the
| mouth close to the transmitter. In
| other words, it is claimed that by the
use of this new attachment converse
| ton can easily be carried on between
two persons, both of whom may be
| several yards distant from the instru-
| ment. We are also told that this m
provement, which is Familiarity known
as the high speaker" has been otfici-
ally tested on several occasions and
has proved a complete success.
Concerning this J. j. Carly. chief
engineer of the New York Telephone
| Company, spoke to a New York Herald
| reporter as follows:
The idea of so arranging the tele-
phone circuit that speech can be trans
| hot, Iiy.to nj
such loudness that it can be heard
, when the ear is placed, we will say 80
feet from the earpiece, is not new.
| Neither is it new to arrange the circuit
so that speech can be transmitted be-
| tween distant points without placing
the mouth close to the transmitter.
| LAT the exhibit of the American BRll
Telephone company in the Electricity
building at the worlds fair, Chicago
there was an apparatus shown whereby
speech could be heard distinctly in a
large audience chamber 40 feet square.
| Even previous to the worlds fair dem
| onstration scientists had been familiar
| with the working of the Edison chalk
telephone, whereby speech was emitted
from a telephone receiver in tone
much louder than that ordinarily USED
in conversation,
therefore the cabled description of
| the European invention applies equally
we'll to Well-known American devices,
and unless there is something more 10
be said upon the subject we must place
this latest wonder in the same category
! with the stories of those marvellous de-
vices accounts of which are cabled
from Europe to this country from time
to time, and in regard to which we
hear nothing more.
How is it. them he was asked
lin view of this well-knoW device, that
they are not employed commercially in
pfoyed commercially in America, when
is far ahead of the rest Of the world
in telephone matters, but they are
not employed elsewhere in the world
commercially
..The reason is a simple one" he re
plied. THE devices are not practi-
cable, can only be maintained under
special conditions that are not to be
found in practice. and, furthermore
they are not compatible with the proper
commercial working OF telephone lines
The great desideratum in telephony IS
not so much to make the telephone
speak out loudly in the room, Dut
rather to make the telephone SPEAK
distinctly and for very great distances,
as the local and long-distance service
of this country testifies. We nave NOT
vet. however. succeeded in talking tor
areat distances under ground or under
water ..
unfortunately, none of the devices
applicable to the loud-speaklng tele-
phone is of any use to us in MAKING
the far-speaking telephone. Inc am
culties encountered in making the tele-
| Dhone sneak across an ocean cable are
as vet insurmountable. They are OF a
peculiar and as yet, an unknown ma
| fire A great reward awaits the man
| who will make the ocean telephone
success, not so much because there Is
| a demand to talk to Europe, out Dc
| + would enable us to eXtenQ our
underground system throughout our
own country In the present state OF
the art the underground telephone Is
not a success beyond the confines OF
large cities"
Have there been any attempts &c
make an ocean telephone caple MI
Carly was asked.
..There has been no actual attempt
at the construction of such a circuit
he replied. But at the. worlds talr
where this loud-sppalling instrument
spoke of was exhibited, there was a
paper read by Sylvanus Thompson.
distinguished electrical engineer of En-
gland, in which he described what he
considered to be a theoretical solution
of the problem. Although distinguish
ed electricians from all over the world
wree present and discussed his paper
no one has had confidence enough IN
his theories to undertake the construC-
ton of one of his cables
| In conclusion Mr.. Carly was asker
whether ne believed an ocean telephone
cahel was possible, and he replied:
The ocean telephone cable is the
dream of telephonists. We all nope TO
live to see its accomplishment. MY
belief is that such a cable will be con
structed some day, but l do not think
that we have yet enough knowledge
to accomplish this much-desired re-
suit"