Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-22
Human Voice Crosses Atlantic
CARRIED BY WIRELESS PHONE FROM ARLINGTON. VA, TO PARIS
USED THE NAVY PLANT
Gable From Paris Repsats Words Ut-
 tered at ArIinston-Predietion That New York Win Yet Talk With Tokio

New York, Oct. 21.-Arlington, Va, talked by telephone with Paris. France, today. Honolulu. S,700 miles from Paris, also heard the operator talking
 Announcement that the human voice had been successfully projected across the Atlantic was made tonight on be- half of John J. Carty. chief engineer of the American Telephone and Tele- graph company, at the company's of flee here. Later MT. Carty, talking over the telephone from Chicago, con- firmed the announcement and told in detail of the test.
 Used Powerful Navy Wireless Plant. To B. 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 atmosphere would then be clearest of static and electrical dis l turbance Mir. Webb, shortly after midnight this morning, asked the wire less telegraph operator to signal the | Eiffel tower in Paris.
 Receivers on EiffeI Tower.
 The wireless snapped out the signal and soon there came back a 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 were H. P. Shreeve and A. M. Curtis other engineers and a group of French officers. listening with specially de- signed apparatus for what might come
 Honolulu Also Heard.
 In Honolulu. 4,soo miles from Arling- ton, with receiver attuned to the wire less antennae of the Pearl Harbor navy yard there. MT. Espenchied, another telephone engineer. was waiting, too. | Webb at Arlington began the test The only transmitting instrument al the three stations was In his hands Only the receiving instruments, ad. justed to the heads of those awaitinl his voice In the EIfrel tower. were al hand In Paris. To Honolulu he gav' little thought, as previous den,onstra' tiona had aiready proved that wir' and wireless could carry the voice iron Arlington to Hawaii. He knew, how ever, that while Paris might hear him he could not hear Paris. but woul' have to walt for the cable to confiru the auoeesa of the experiment or tel of It's failure,
 The Measass.
 Hello, shreevel" he shouted int the mouthplece, Hell, ShreeVel"
 He paused a few seconds, then be gan to oountI "One two, three, fouI one, two, three, four" The tumble O meaningless figures was repeated sev eral times, and next came the enuncia tien of several test sentences, Thes were repeated, too, More counting, an finally the farewell, three times,
 ''Geed-bye, 6hreevel" a pause saoed-hye, shreevei aeed-by'
 Suietsiv tha taienhane was unhttehe from the sending apparatus an
 Webb, after looking ever his apparatul went home to bed, Some time today he thought, a cable message mish whether the whole thing was fiazl or the opening of new era in trans Atlantic communication,
 Confirmation from Paris. , Late this afternesn the expecte message came, It was addressed { ! the company here and said ths l Webbes "Helios" and '10eed-byes" ha ] heeR distinctly heard by the engineer } aPd French army officers in Paris an [ that portions of his test sentences als
 had been picked up, At about th : eame time there came a message frei s Honolulu saying that Webb's talk ha 3 been understood in full by the Feceiy 3 iHg engineer there,
 New YeFk to TsIis Predicted,
 in telling ef the tests which Fesuite
 in the human yeice spanning by Ian wires and wireless ehe-third the ciI
 conference of the world, Mfr, Cart l said over the telephone tonight ths
 he thought the day was net many veal
 distant when New York ceuid speak |. telephone with Tekie and that 1t wa l | his belief that the human voice coul be made to carry entirely around tf 8 world by wireless. Much experiment. a weFk will have to be done yet, hsw ever, he said, before telephone cen | muRieation across the Atlantic beeemS ' an everyday affair of commercial If