Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-02-05

BEL Company by persistent studv and in1
Sessaht expenditures of immense sunns of
; ;,1oiiey created an entire new art. invent
itns, ueVeloplng and perfecting making
improvements. great and small in teie
Prone transmitter. line cable. switch
20 ana every other piece of apparatus
- Hu pldnt required for the transmission
q speech. As the latest nroduct Of tbis
9HSeaslng organized effort there has been
die a.. 70 the service of the public to-
,ouS JOINING the Atlantic and the Pacific
any CARRYING the human voice instantly
Gnu dISt!nctly between San Francisco and
,TeW YORK and Boston and Washington.
ms telephone line is part Of the Bell
system of q 900 miles Of wire connect
ing 100000 telephone stations located ev-
SrEa"nere throughout ne United States
ahu giving TO the American people tele-
phone service unparalleled among the ma.
Mons of the earth
On table in President Wallis office
IN New York was replica of the
nrst telephone transmitter to carry
the human voice It locked to be a
crude enough affair Tie down drum
mead over wooden receiver join the
center OF the drum head 10 the free
emu OF a receiver spring arrange a
mouthp1ece over the drum-head-and
there you have it.
mere was further reminder of the
telephones babyhood in coil of wire
connected with the trarsmitter This
was part OF the origina! wire over
winch DR., BE" spoke the first words
ever uttered by telephone. in his
boarding house at Exeter Place,
Boston
}. j. Carly Greets Dr.. Bell.
One of the first to greet DIR. Boil
as he entered was John Joseph Carly.
Chief Engineer of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company, under
whose direction the transcontinenta;
line was built Mr. Carly said:
This greatest of telephone lines
which today has been dedicated to
the service of the public, must al
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 WashingtCn
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 Ii spoke
his message of congrarulation 10 men OF
achievement.
Unable to be present with us in per
son. Mr.. Theodore N Vail has neverthe-
manner that fills the mind with amaze
ment. BY using his wonderful Bell syS-
tenn of orSanized men and organized wires
he has talked to as here at New York
from an island eleven hundred miles &c
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.
We are filled with grateful feelings
that Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas
watson have TODAY n of
err over this now historic line. Doctor
Bell was the first to conceive of the true
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
telephone and Watson was the first to
hear
There is before us an exact reproduc-
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.
"Of course he was not heard by any
means as we'll as when he used our stand
ard transmitter but we'll enough to be un-
derStood, we may be sure, and loud
enough to excite most pleasing senti-
ment. This original type of telephone
talking over one of our modern lines
ly than it ever did from one room to an
other over the best line of former days
Thus does this homely first instrument
give testimony to the marvellous improve
ments made in its plant by the Bell com
pany 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.
Bell and Watson Talk.
Alloy Ahoyi Mr. Watson, are
you there? Do you hear me?" asked
Mr. Bell in New York.
Yes Mr.. Bell, hear you perfectly
Do you hear me we'l?" replied Mr..
Watson at his end of the line in San
Francisco.
Yes, your voice is perfectly dis
tinct," said Bell. 1T is as clear as if
you were here in New York instead
of being more than 5000 miles away
You remember. Mr.. Watson, that eve
ming. So years ago when we conversed
through the telephone on a real line
for the first timer"
Yes indeed" answered Watson,
that line was two miles long, running
from Boston to Cambridge. You were
overioyed at the success of the exper-
iment."
I'VE are talking over S.400 miles as
easily and clearly as we talked over
two miles SO years ago." said Prof.
Bell
The telephone men have certainly
done wonderful things with your in
ventioG since that first outdoor test"
said Mr.. Watson. we must not for.
get that the circuit we are talking
over is really $500 miles long. as of
course, the earth cannot be used for
the return now as we used il then"
~ want to switch in another tele-
nhone and talk to you through that"
said DR.. Bell, and suiting the action to
the word he switched in replica of
his first telephone instrument. Il am
now talking through an exact dupli-
cate of the first telephone which was
made in June, 1875" continued DR..
Bell. .'can you hear me?"
Il hear perfectly. though less dis
tinctly than with the other, of course"
answered MIR. Watson.
Mr.. Bell switched back to the stand