The Monticellonian., 1915-10-14
HUMAN VOICE IS TRANSMITTED FROM ATLANTIC sEABOARD
 TO HONOLULU.
4 DISTANCE OF 4,60O MILE
Remarkable Demonstration of Ametl- can Telegraph & Telephone Com pany Engineers Regarded az Marvellous Triumph ef
 Science.

tic seaboard to Hawaii-a distance cf 4.600 miles-is an accomplished fact. By the special wireless telephone de- velopments which have been made by the engineers of the American Tele- graph and Telephone Company and of the Western Electric Company speech was transmitted September 18th from Washington to wireless station in Honolulu. If anything further was needed to show the wonderful capac- fly of these new discoveries by the engineers of the Bell System, this last triumph coming but few hours after MT. Vail, president of the company, had talked by wireless from Washing ton to Mir. Garty, it's chief engineer, cisco, Cal Is conclusive.
 That transatlantic wireless tele- phone communication is insured as soon as the disturbed condition in Europe will permit of tests from this country is obvious when il Is refnem- bered that all scientists agree on the fact that 1t Is more difficult to send wireless telephone communications across land than across water This wonderful wireless telephone message from Washington to Hawaii had to pass over the entire United States-a distance of 2.5oo miles-before it en- countered the more simple wireless conditions which exist over large bodies of water
 For the purpose of this test the sending WAS done from the navy wire less station at Arlington, just outside of Washington, D. C. The message was received by a small wireless ap- parntus at the United States naval station, Pearl Harbar, Hawaii
 Wireless telephony has been tho goal of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company ever since 1t sac- ceeded In establishing the transcontt nantal communication by wire last January Prior to sending the wire less telephone message to Hawai-, President Theo. N Vau, of the Amer foam Telephone & Telegraph Com nRny. seated at his desk at Is Dey street, New York, talked into Bell telephone instrument and his voice carried by wire to the radio station of Che navy department at Arlington, D. e.. and from there through the air to the radio station at Mare Island, Cal, where 1t was heard by John T. Carty. chief engineer of che American Tele- phone q Telegraph Company, and others.
 The following statement was made by Mr. Vail after the successful de- monstration of wireless telephony be- tween Washington, D C.. aad Hawaii
 T do not think that I can better express my views in regard to wireless telephony than to cuote the telegram which I have just sent to MT Carty. the chief engineer of ttis company
 "Carty: I want to congratulate te you on yesterdays climax in the way of achievements, the greatest in in tercommunication that fne world has ever seen
 "'To you and the wonderful staff created by you, the world owes c debt.
 ITO throw your voice directly with out the aid of wires from Washington to Hawaii, nearly 5000 miles, a great CT distance from New York to Paris. Berlin, Vienna or Petrograd and great CT than that between Seattle and Tokio and Yokohoma, was wonderful, but to send the recognized voice part way over wire and part through the air was still more wonderful and was the demonstration of the chiefest use that will probably attach to the wire less as simplifying and supplementing, not substituting, the wire system and bring into conversational communica- ton ships, islands and places which cannot otherwise be reached Your work has indeed brought us one long step nearer our ideal" Universal System.