New Britain herald., 1915-10-22
HUMAN VOICE HEARD
 ACROSS ATLANTIC
Arlington Operator Talks With
 Paris by Wireless Telephone

, Paris, also heard the operator talking
 from Arlington.
 Announcement that the human voice l had been successfully projected across ! the Atlantic was made last night on 1 behalf of John J. Carty, chief en- gineer of the American Telephone &
 Telegraph company, at the company's i office here Later MT. Carty, talking
 over the telephone from Chicago, con- | firmed the announcement and told in | detail of the test
 webb Has Honor.
 To E. B. Webb, a telephone engineer, fell the honor of being the first man to span with his voice the space be- tween the old world and the new. Sit ting in the powerful navy wireless plant at Arlington, Va, at an hour
 previously designated and selected be- cause the atm osphere would then be clearest of static and electrical dis turbance, MT. Webb, shortly after mid night this morning asked the wireless telegraph operator to signal the Eiffel tower in Paris.
 The wireless snapped out the signal and soon there came hack response. The way was clear The French gov ernment had turned over the Eiffel tower plant to the engineers for few precious moments and the Arlington plant was already at their service. Awaiting word from MT. Webb at the Paris end of the wireless radiation were H. E. Shreeve> and A. M. Curtis, other engineers and group of F'rench officers, listening with specially de- signed apparatus for what might come
 Waiting at Honolulu.
 In Honolulu, 4,S0O miles from Ar lington with receiver attuned to the wireless antennae of the Pearl liar bor navy yard there, MT. Espenchied, another telephone engineer, was awaiting, too
 Webb, at Arlington began the test. The only transmitting instrument at the three stations was in his hands. Only the receiving instruments, ad- justed to the heads of those awaiting his voice in the Eiffel tower were at hand in Paris. To Honolulu he gave little thought, as previous demonstra- tions had already proved that wire and wireless could carry the voice from Arlington to Hawaii. He knew, however that while Paris might hear him, he could not hear Paris, but would have to wait for the cable to confirm the success of the experiment or tell of it's failure.
 Shouts Into Mouthpiece.
 Hello, 'Shreeve'," he shouted into the mouthpiece. Hello, 'Shreeve'." He paused few seconds; then began to count: "One, two, three, four; one, two. three, four" The tumble of meaningless figures was repeated sev- eral times and next came the enuncia- tion of several test sentences. These were repeated, too. More counting. and finally the farewell, three times:
 "Good-bye, Shreeve!" A pause. "Good-bye, Shreeve!" "Good-bye, Snreeve!''
 Quickly the telephone was unh1tcheo from the sending apparatus and Webb, after looking over his apparatus went home to bed. Sometime today, he thought, a cable message might come through from Paris, telling whether the whole thing was a fizzle or the opening of a new era in trans-Atlan- tic communication.
 Expected Message Arrives. Late yesterday afternoon the expect ed message came. It was addressed to the company here and said that
 webb's "Hellos" and "Good-byes" had been distinctly heard by the engineers | and French army officers in Paris, and | that portions of his test sentences also | had been picked up. At about the same time there came a message from Honolulu saying that Webb's talk had | been understood in full by the receiv- | ing engineer there.
 In telling of the tests which result
 ed in the human voice spanning, by l land wires and wireless, one-third the | circumference of the world, MT. Carty
 said over the telephone last night that he thought the day was not many | years distant when New York could speak by telephone with Tokio, and | that it was his belief that the human | voice could be made to carry entirely 1 around the world by wireless. Much experimental work will have to be | done yet, however, he said, before | telephone communication across the | Atlantic becomes an everyday affair of commercial life.
 New Chapter In Experiment. The announcement that speech has 1 actually been transmitted from Ar | lington to observers stationed at the | Eiffel Tower, Paris, marks the con- l clusion of another chapter in tht experiment undertaken by the Ameri-
 can Telephone and Telegraph com | pany When MT. Carty's engineers | commenced work on the long distance
 wireless telephone experiments, ob-
 servers with receiving apparatus were 1 sent not only to Panama, San Diego, | Mare Island and Honolulu, but also | two engineers, Mr. H. R. Shreeve and l Mr. A. M. Curtis, were sent to Paris.
 Through the courtesy of the French | government limited facilities for lis- | tening at the Eiffel Tower station