Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-02-17

was, 1t became at once the marvel e III
i I5Ie Wortd causing scientists as we'll as
Iayihen 10 eXclalm with wonder Startino
WIN these feeble instruments only th9
Dell company. by persistent study and in
SeSSdHl expenditures of immense sums of
slloHey, created an entire new art invapt
ing, developing and perfecting 1891 11.sen.
IMP oVementS, great and small i'm teia
PIlons transmltter, line. cable, switch
oo9ru anu every other piece of apDaratns
ana plant required for the transmisSiop
OF speech. AS the latest product of This
99nSSteaslng orgs nized effort, there has been
daW os'eq Ito 10 tlIe service of the public to-
uay transcontinental line 3,4OO miles
Iong' joining the Atlantic and the Pacifc
ana carrying the human voice instantIv
S MaI,, oISStlnctly between San Francisco and
M MeW ork and Boston and Washington
Inns telephone line is part of the RaIi
system OF 2l,OOO,000 miles of wire connect
n Tg S;booVoOo telephone stations located ev-
e.y"nere throughout the United States
ana giving to the American people teIe.
phone service unparalleled among the ma
tons of the earth" ''ie A"
On table in President Wallis Office
IN New York was a replica of the
nrst telephone transmitter to carry
the human voice. 1t looked to be a
crude enough affair. Tie down drum
neao over wooden receiver, join the
center OF the drum-head to the free
eno OF receiver spring, arrange a
IlouChplece over the drum-head-and
there you have it,
There was further reminder of the
Celepnones Dabyhood in coil of wire
connected with the transmitter. This
was part OF the original wire over
which Dr. Bell spoke the first words
ever uttered by telephone, in his
boarding house at 5 Exeter Place,
Boston.
j. J. Carly Greets DR.. Bell.
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as ne entered was John Joseph Carly,
Chlet 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
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 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
ms 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 or 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.
I'VE are filled with grateful feelings
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
hrst among men to talk by the electric
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 well 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
| spoke across the continent more distinct
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 F"
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.
"Ahoy! Alloy. Mr. Watson, are
you there? Do you hear me?" asked
Mr. Bell in New York.
Yes, Mr.. Bell, I hear you perfectly
Do you hear me weu?" 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
min. SO years ago when we conversed
| through the telephone on real line
for the first timer"
yes indeed" answered Watson,
that line was two miles long, running
from Boston to Cambridge. You we're
overjoyed at the success of the exper-
| iment."
1--WE are talking over 3,4OO 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
vention since that first outdoor test,
said Mr.. Watson. I'VE 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 it then"
q want to switch in another tele-
phone and talk to you through that,
said DR.. Bell, and suiting the action to
the word he switched in a 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.
Rel. "can you hear me?'
II hear perfectly, though less dis
tinctly than with the other, OF course
answered Mr.. Watson.
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