The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-10-16
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Omitted Press staff Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. October
is.-J. j. Carly. A. T and 7. eniei
engineer. dreamer of dreams thai
Gene true. Che perfected the wire
leas phone through which Washing-
ton officials recently talked 30
milss from the capitoIof Hawaii ana
with which the human voice ma
some day circle the globe you know
was in san Francisco the day inc
Red Letter editor phoned his assign
ment TO me from New York.
Accordingly. found Mr.. Carly
ana he told me something OF his
dreams for wireless telephony
Some day. he opined, BIZ Smith
may sit In his Office in New YORK,
Chicago, Seattle or San Francisco
ring up across the continent en- the
wire and be connected with the
wireless telephone to Toxic.
From New York, that is about
5 600 miles
But. Bill Smith won't be able to-
use a wireless telephone to talk to
Tom Jones down in another Office
building in the same town The
wireless isn't meant for that, and II
won't supplement the telephone or
.ba IA fyaiaes fa}esraph
The little man with the black
hair. Just tinging with gray. and
the sharp black eyes peerine out
from under shaggy eyebrows. cat in
the temporary Office of the A. I &
lT. Co, here and discussed his
dream Of talking across the eon;in-
ent and thence to Hawaii, which
had just come true
He personally had made wireless
telephony a commercial possibility
but it was of his company that he
scarcely ever. Il. =
I'VE don't expect that theren be
such a thing as carrying pocket
phone around aud connecting up
With anybody anywhere in the
| world, he said
what we do expect, though is
that the wireless telephone viii be
available for ships. and particularly
/ for small crafts. so that one may
talk to the other or 10 the shore
! "It is easier TO talk wirelessly over
water than over land. and while We
/ have TALKED across the continent. we
think the practical outcome will be
that the man. say In New York. VIII
talk across the continent by wire
end be connected with the wireless.
1 think it viii be possible for him
in this way to talk to Toxic.
"The real development We expect
/ however. to be on ships
You see it's very easy to talk
across country now, be said putting
80 connection between the United
/ Press offices in Kew York and san
j Francisco for tho eotres pondent
/ It was very easy Just like talking
through an open door to man in
I the hallway
/ That, however. viii DE stretched
out so that II spands lands and the
oceans. The feat accomplished in
! talking from New York TO San Fran
cisco and Hawaii, he pointed out,
makes It certainty that one may
talk to Europe
There are three main reasons, as
Carly explained it, why wireless TEL
ephony cannot come into general
use; that is. supplant the usual COM
mercial telephone:
First, great roar that spreads
+ through the other and transfers 70
the wireless set; second, the lack OF
secrecy; and third. the inability 10
spread so many communications on
one line" as can be done with tn 3
+ wire system
The roar. he expects viii be over
come 10 some extent. He has found
he can hear clearly Ia talking to New
+ York, but there are static Interrupt
f tons He is now working to smooth
out this difficulty also on complet-
/ ing the system OF response.
i On his original tests there was
transmission in only one direction.
bat Carly Is now working out both
sending and receiving instruments.
Carly has other big ideas back Of
those keen black eyes. But he isn't
telling them
You know, Mir Vail's orders are
10 do il ana talk about it afterward ),
he said
what do yeu think win be the
next great achievement in scienceqs