The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04

taking from one part of the room try an.
u ,,,ae - L SalnI as the transmitted speech
was, " became at once the marvel of all
the world, causing scientists as we'll as j
layinen TO exclaim with wonder. Starting i
W WIin ,tnese Feeble instruments only, the
BEL Company, by persistent study and in
cessant expenditures of immense sums of \
money, created an entire new art invent
i ing, aeveloplng and perfecting, making
improvements, great and small in tele-
phone transmitter, line, cable. switch
BOARD and every other piece of apparatus
ana plant required for the transmission
OF speech. AS the latest product of this
dedlcated to the service of the public to-
DAY transcontinental line 3,400 miles
long, Joining the Atlantic and the Pacific
and carrying the human voice instantly
and distinctly between San Francisco and
New York and Boston and Washington
Inns telephone line is part of the Bell
n , NJ OF 2iOoOoo0 miles of wire connect
ing 90OO,OOO telephone stations located ev
eryWhere throughout the United States
ana giving to the American people tele-
phone service unparalleled among the ma
tons of the earth
On table in President Wallis office
in New York was a replica of the
first telephone transmitter to carry
the human voice. 1t looked to be a
crude enough affair. Tie down drum
head over a wooden receiver ioin the,
center of the drum-head to the free
end of receiver spring. arrange a.
mouthp1ece over the drum-head-and
there you have it.
There was further reminder of the
telephones babyhood 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.
One of the first to greet DR.. Tell
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
it's 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 ana d. breadth OF , our land to the
miles away, thus attaining the longest
distance ever achieved by the voice of
I'VE are filed 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
| first among men to talk by the electric
| 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 well as when he used our stand
| ard transmitter but well enough to be I'M
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
Mr.. Carty 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.
Eyes, Mr.. Bell, hear you perfectly.
Do you hear me well?" replied Mr..
Watson at his end of the line in San
Francisco.
Eyes, your voice is perfectly dis
tinct," said Bell. at is as clear as II
you were here in New York instead
of being more than 5000 miles away.
You remember, Mr.. Watson, that eve
ming, 3S years ago when we conversed
through the telephone on real line
for the first timer"
Eyes. indeed" answered Watson
that line was two miles long, running
from Boston to Cambridge You were
overjoyed at the success of the exper
iment."
1--WE are talking over 3,400 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
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 fol
the return now as we used it then"
81 want to switch in another tele
phone and talk to you through that,
,, said DR.. Bell, and suiting the action t.
the word he switched in a replica o.
his first telephone instrument Il an
now talking through an exact dupli
cate of the first telephone which was
made in June, 1885, continued DR.
Bell. "can you hear me?"
4 II hear perfectly. though less OILS
tinctly than with the other, OF course,
: answered Mr.. Watson.
2 Mr. Bell switched back to the STAND