Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-10

was, it became at once the ~ 80, Speech ii
Tue world, causing scientists as well as
r ,"y men ~ 10 excia1m with wonder Starting
D DI1u tnese feeble instruments ONLY the
oell company, by persistent study and in
oeSSaIt expenditures of immense sums of
mo S created an entire new art, invent
ms, ueVeloplng and perfecting making
ItPIoFehehts, great and small In tele-
PIlohe transmitter, line, cable. switch
ooe 5 dhu every other piece of apparatus
ana plant required for the transmission
OF speech. AS the latest product of This
11IlGIeaslng organized effort there has been
d9e e1. to the service Of the public to-
49,, ;uanscontlnental line 3,400 miles
lolls' Joining the Atlantic and the Pacific
ana carrying the human voice instantly
ana distinctly between San Francisco and
T Teis i0rk and Boston and Washington
Inns me- leIepnone line is part OF the Bell
system OF 21OOO,00O miles of wire connect
ing S;VoO'VoO telephone stations located ev-
a and eTin throughout t the United States
phone service unparalleled among the ma
tons of the earth
On a table in President Wallis office
IN New York was a replica of the
nrst telephone transmitter to carry
the human voice. 1t looked to he a
CRUDE enough affair. Tie down drum
mead over wooden receiver ioin the
center or the drum head to the free
END OF a receiver spring. arrange a
mouthpiece over the drum-head-
there you have it.
There was further reminder of the
telephones babyhood in a coil of wire
connected with the transmitter. This
was part of the original wire over
which DIR. Bell spoke the first words
ever uttered by telephone, in his
boarding house at Exeter Place.
Boston.
J. j. Carly Greets DR.. Bell.
one of the first to greet DIR. Bell
as he entered was John Joseph Carly,
Chief Engineer of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company, under
whose direction the transcontinental
line was built. Mr.. Carly said:
This greatest of telephone lines
which today has been dedicated to
ways be distinguished because through
its copper wires the voice of the Chief
Magistrate of this nation has for the first
time in our history been transmitted from
the seat of government at Washington
westward thirty-siX hundred miles to the
shores of the Pacific. over this line the
voice of President Wilson was carried
with magic speed across rivers and plains
and mountains, instantly reaching San
Francisco where in clear tones it spoke
his message of congratulation to men of
achievement.
unable to be present with us in per-
son, Mr. Theodore N. Vail has neverthe-
less taken part in these ceremonies, in a
manner that fills the mind with amaze
ment. By using his wonderful Bell sys-
tenn of organized men and organized wires
he has talked to us here at New York
from an island eleven hundred miles to
the south, near the coast of Florida
From there he has spoken through the
length and breadth of our land to the
state of California, forty-fOur hundred
miles away thus attaining the longest
distance ever achieved by the voice Of
man.
{of,,1
that Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas
A Watson have today talked to each 9TH
er over this now historic line Doctor
Bell was the first to conceive of the true
method and apparatus for transmitting
speech electrically and Mr.. Watson, fol-
lowing exactly the directions given to him
by Doctor Bell, constructed with his own
hands the first telephone. Bell was the
first among men to talk by the electric
telephone and Watson was the first to
hear.
| ton of this electric speaking telephone
employed by Bell and Watson when first
| they talked to each other by wire.
| Through this instrument Doctor Bell has
| again talked to Mr.. Watson, but this time
how vast is the distance and how great
| the triumph.
| means as well as when ne used our stand
| ard transmitter but well enough to be un-
| derstood we may be sure, and loud
| enough to excite most pleasing senu-
| ment. This original type Of telephone
| talking over one of our modern lines,
| spoke across the continent more distinct
! ly than it. ever did from one room 10 an
/ Thus does this homely first instrument
| give testimony to the marvellous improve
| ments made in its plant by the BEL com
MANY during these intense Intervening
years"
Mr.. Carly escorted DR.. Bell to the
| strange looking transmitter and Its in
ventor pressed his lips to the mouth
| piece.
Alloy! Alloy! Mr. Watson, are
YOU there? Do you hear me?" asked
Mr.. Bell in New York.
yes. Mr.. Bell, hear you perfectly.
no Won hear me weu?' replied MT.
watson at his end of the line in san
| Francisco. a.,
Yes YOUR voice is perfectly dis
tinct said Bell 1T is as clear as II
Won were here in New York instead
81 haing more than 5000 miles away
Won remember Mr. Watson, that eve
ming SO years ago when we conVerseu
| through the telephone on a real me
| for the first time?
yes indeed" answered watson,
| that line was two miles long. running
from Boston to Cambridge. you were
oyerioyed at the success OF the eApei-
| iment." 200 ,;Ios 90
I'VE are talking over 9,4OO miles as
easily and clearly as we talked over
two miles SO years ago, SAID Frol'
Bell. o oo-+oin1v
"The telephone men have certalnly
| done wonderful things with your IN,
uontion since that first outdoor test
Ia Mr. watson. I'VE must not lot
Cot that the circuit we are taking
ever is really $500 miles long. as OF
oonrse the earth cannot be USED LOT
tpo return now is we used it then
81 want to switch in another ee1e !.
nhone and talk to you through that'
pnGn 6r Rell. and suiting the action 10
t fSD word he switched in repiiGa oa
bie first telephone instrument. an
n nlS talking through an exact uupli s
nov of the first telephone which was
U I'D in june. 1875" continued III.
P Ing can you hear me? ,o,s die.
Bei Ell hear perfectly, though less essrs as,
.,.dt,u than with the other. OF course
I'M Mr.. Watson. ..d.
an Mr. Bell switched back to tne s'Snu