The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1915-10-08


Washington - Wireless telephone
crumlr .r..l1 across 'ie continent
was acronr r.-ted for rho FIRST t.mo
la.' aa.E Vtsr experiment. rv'ari.
'-E over several months eliminated
lr tu.ra-lfll tran mi o1 90 the tI
nan voice by radio from thc grea,
naval plant 40 Arlington Na across
tto continent 20 tte station at Mare
Island. Cal. $500 miles away
Tho experiments were conducted BY
TIE American Telephone and T-le-
graph Company in cooperation with
the navy radio service and fhn West
ern Electric Company Secretary
Daniels. announcing Tho result pre-.
d.o'od that further developments %
wireless telephony would make great
changes iu long distance cnmulu'ca
t.on both for military and nasal sorv.
irr l0 commercial USAGE Suoca sfIl
operation OF a device for automatically
transferring TO the radio telephone
conversations originating on metallic
circuits also was accomplished in the
tests. President Theodore " Vail and
other officials Of the American Tole-
phone and Telegraph Company az New
York talked easily with the Mare H.
land station. the conversations travel.
inr over an ordinary metallic line from
New York 20 Arlington thence BY
radio across the continent
"The fact that the voices can be
started on a land wire and automati-
cally transmitted 10 a voice radio
transmi,tor" said Secretary Daniels.
"holds out hope that persons inland
should readily be put In touch by tele-
phone with others az sea through some
central transmitting station"
This latest triumph Of the tcle-
phonic art was under the direct super
vision Of John J. Carty. chief engineer
Of the American Telephone and Tole-
graph Company. who. with an able
corps OF engineer and scientists, had
been working for some time on the
problem both from the standpoint of
wire and wireless trarsmi. .sion
Trans continental wire tran. miss sion
was publicly demon 'ratod for the
first time last January and tho trans.
continental wireless transmit ion fol.
lows the celebration Of the former
great technical achievement after a
period Of less than a year.
Mr Carty stated that the results
achieved here outdlsjanre anything
/ heretofore accomplished lie believes
T talking across the continent has great.
/ or difficulties than talking across tho
/ Atlantic for transmission over water
/ ig much easier than over land par
/ ticularly in view Of the formidable
mountain ranges 10 be- crossed on tho
/ continent
Telephone messages" Mt Carty
says. "wcrc transmitted with success
from Arlington. Va. To- tlI'' lsthmus OF
Panama, whore they were received at
tho government radio station bv one
~ hls engineers and by the naval Of
ncors In charge. who tolgraphd back
their contents At san Diego also
where one ~ sc telephone engineers
was located at the naval radio sta
tion, wireless telephone speech from
the telephone and naval and army Of
/ ncials AZ Washington WAS received
Talking across the Atlantic hy means
of this new system "a now but a mat.
ter Of installing the necessary appar-
ntus"
Y. y. Bethel. senior vice ldont
~ M" company who also talked over
tho Wireless telephone. made tha FOL
lowing statement:
This romantic Incident this talk
Ir by wireless across tine continent
means another epoch in the develop
mont o' the art ~ transmitting intel
llr.nro by electricity The talking
was very satisfactory words and sen.
tcncos uttered from New York were
! repeated back from san Francisco
with absolute accuracy and even my
voice was recognized Immediately
whom I spoke into the transmittcr.
"Tho wireless telephones great
value win be TO supplement and cx.
tend the telephone service wire sys.
tenn I'm those situations whore It IL
impossible To string wires. and its use
over wide eNpanses OF water desert.
etc, opens mp attractive fields to the
Imagination, especially when some
way Is found to overcome the well.
known disturbances which Interfere
40 much with an wireless communica.
tiors, whether telephone or telegraph
I'm spite ~ this however the value oi
wireless telephony can hardly be- esti
mated and n ls sure TO be helpful be