The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-02-04

! the world, causing scientists as well as
/ laymen to exClaim with wonder. Starting
| with these feeble instruments only the
! bell Company, by persistent study and in
| ceSsant expenditures of immense sums OF
! money, created an entire new art, invent
| ing developing and pertecting. making
| improvements, great and small in tele-
| phone transmitter, line, cable switch
! board and every other piece Of apparatus
| anu plant required FOR the transmission
! Of speech. As the latest product of this
| unreaslns organized effort. there has been
| dedicated to the service of the public to-
| daN transcontinental line 3.iO0 miles
! long joining the Atlantic and the Pacific
| ana carrying the human voice instantly
| ana distinctly between San Francisco and
| New York and Boston and Washington
| rms telephone line is part Of the Bell
| system of y 100000 miles of wire connect
| ing 9WH,oH telephone stations located ev-
| efNWhere throughout the United States
! ana giving to the American people tele-
prone service unparalleled among the ma
| IONS or the earth"
On a table in President Wallis office
in New York was replica of the
hrst telephone transmitter to carry
the human voice. II looked to be
crude enough affair. Tie down drum.
mead over wooden receiver. ioin the
center OF the drum head to the free
end of receiver spring arrange
mouthplece over the m-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 ) Exeter Place,
Boston.
j. j. Carly Greets Or. Bell.
nf hA
as he entered was John Joseph Carly,
thlet Engineer of the American Tele.
phone and Telegraph Company, under
whose direction the transcontinental
line was built Mr.. Carly said:
This greatest of telephone lines
which today has been dedicated 10
the service Of the public. must al
ways he distinguished because through
It's copper wires the voice of the cher
Magistrate of this nation has for the first
time in our history been transmitted from
the seat Of gov eTnurut al washington
westward thir,y-siN hundred miles To- the
shores of the Pacific. over this line lin.
voice of President Wilson was carried
WIN magic speed across rivers and plains
and mountains, Instantly reaching san
Francisco where IN clear tones il spoke
ms message of congrarulation to men OF
achievement.
Unable to be present with us i'm per
son. Mr., Theodore ~ Vail has neyerthe-
less taken part in these ceremonies la "A
manner that fills the mind with amaze
neni. by using his wonderful Ben Sys-
TEN II 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 and breadth OF our land 10 The
state of California, forty-fOur hundred
miles away, thus attaining the longest
distance ever achieved by the voice of
man.
we are filled 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
hands the first telephone. Bell was the
hrSt among men 10 talk by the electric
telephone and Watson was the first to
hear
There is before us AN exact reprodlIc-
ton II this electric speaking telephone
employed by Bell and Watson when first
| they talked to each other bv wire
Through this instrument Doctor Bell ms
again talked to M. 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 be used our stand
ard transmitter but well enough TO bc IN
drrstood we may BE- sure, and loud
ment This original tynr of telephone
talking over one of our modern lines
spoke across the continent more distinct
~ than II ever did from one room to an
other over IN" best line OF former DAYS
Thus does this homelv first instrument
give testimony to the marvellous improve
ments made IN it's plant by the Bel com
panv during these intense intervening
years"
Mr.. Carly escorted DR. Bell to the
strange looking transmtter and its in.
ventor pressed his lips to the mouth.
piece
Bell and Watson Talk.
Alloy! Alloy, Mr. Watson, are
you there? DO you hear me?" asked
Mr.. Bell in New York
Yes, Mr. Bell, hear YOU perfectly.
DO you near me well?" replied Mr..
Watson at his end of the line in San
Francisco
Yes, your voice is perfectly dis
tinct," said Bell. 1T is as clear as If
you were here in New York instead
OF being more than 5000 miles away
You remember, Mr. Watson, that eve.
ming. SO years ago when we conversed
through the telephone on a real line
for the first time"
Yes, indeed" answered Watson,
tndt me was TWO miles long, running
from Boston to Cambridge You were
overjoyed at the success OF the exper-
iment."
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
veutlsu since that first outdoor. test"
, sa.i Mr. watson. We must not for.
get that the circuit we are talking
over is really $500 miles long. as OF
course the earth cannot be used for
| the return now az we used IL then"
Il want to switch in another tele-
phone and talk to you through that"
said DR.. Bell and suiting the action to
| the word he switched in a replica OF
| his first telephone instrument. Il am
now talking through an exact dupll
cate OF the first telephone which was
made in June 1875 continued Dr.
| Bell, can you hear me-
Il hear perfectly, though less dis.
| tinctly than with the other, OF course"
| answered Mr. Watson.
Mr.. Bell switched back to the stand