The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-22
Human Voice Projected Across Atlantic for First Time, Reaching French Capital
MESSAGE WAS ALSO DISTINCTLY HEARD
 ACROSS THE PACIFIC
French Army Officers and Engineers Are Able to Converse With American Operator at Arlington

New York. October 21.-ArIinKton. Va, talked by wireless. telephone with Paris. France. today. Honolulu alsc heard the operator talking from ArI- ington.
 Announcement that the human voice had been projected across the Atlantic was made tonight on behalf of John J. Carty. chief engineer of the American Telegraph and Telephone company. at the companys offices here. Later Mir. carty telephoned from Chi cago. confirming the announcement
 To. B. B. Webb. telephone engi- neer, fell the honor of being the first man to span with Is voice the space between the old world and tho new. Sitting in the navy's powerful wireless plant at Arlington, Mir. Webb shortly after midnight this morning asked tho wireless telegraph operator to signal the Eiffel tower in Paris.
 The wireless snapped out the signal and soon there came back response. Awaiting word from Webb at the Paris end of the wireless radiation were II. 10. Shreeve and A. M Curtis, other en- gineers. and a group of French off cers, listening with especially designed apparatus ss
 Honolulu Listens
 In Honolulu, 4S0O miles from Arling- ton. Mir. Espenchied, another telephone engineer at the Pearl harbor navy yard. also was waiting
 Webb at Arlington had transmit ting instrument but no receiving ap- paratus. He knew therefore that he would have to wait for the cable to confirm the success failure of the experiment.
 T. tt, mouthpiece. Hello, Shreeve"
 He then began to count ''One, two, three, four, one, two three four. Good byr,
 Late this afternoon the expected cabla message came It was addressed to the company here. and said that Webb's "helos' and .'goodbys" had been dis tinctly heard by the engineers and French officers in Paris and that portions of his test figures had also been picked up. At about the same time there came a mes- sage from Honolulu saying that Webb's talk had been understood in full by the receiving engineer there and that even Webbs.
 To Perfect Service
 Carty said over the telephone tonight that much experimental work will have to be done yet before telephone com munioation across the Atlantic becomes an everyday affair,
 The French government and the navy department at Washington, he said. had made 1t possible to conduct the test by occasionally permitting the use of the wireless stations Military necessities of France. he said prevented more than brief use of the Eiffel tower station at one time.
 John J. carty. chief engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph com pany tonight gave Thomas Edison first news of the transmission of a message by wireless telephone from Arlington. Va. to the Eiffel tower in Paris. cutting In at Chicago on a telephone wire run ming from Orange, N. J.. to San Fran cisco.
 We sent q message by wireless tele- phone at 12:55 today to the Eiffel tower in Paris, and this is the first public an- nouncement of the fact, said Mir Carty.
 That is wonderful" replied Mr. Ed ison.
 Mir. Edison, apparently not satisfied with anything achieved. immediately sug- gested that with megaphone attach ment, an entire audience on the Pacific coast might readily hear concert on the Atlantic seaboard.