Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-02-12

THIS MBfttl. causing scientists as We'll
la3ns1 70 eXelaana with wonder Starting
With these feeble instruments only the
Aseii Company, By persistent Study and in
cta5sstnl exp MIXTURES of immense sums of
money, created an entire new art. INVENT
ing, developing ana perfecting, making
improvements, great and small in tele-
phone transmitter, line, cable, switch
board and every other. niece Of appar3 tIls
and plant required for the transmission
Of speech. As the latest product of this
unceaSlnS organized effort. there has been
dedicated TO the service of the public to-
Gay LranScontinental line 3400 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.
This telephone line is part of the Bell
system OF 2l000,000 miles of Wire connect
ing 100000 telephone stations located ev-
erywhere throughout the United States
and giving to the American people tele-
phone service unparalleled among the ma
tons of the earth
On a table in President Wallis Office
III New York was a replica of the
! nrst telephone transmitter to carry
the human voice. 1t looked to be a
crude enough affair. Tie down drum
head over wooden receiver. join the
center OF the drum-head to the free
end OF a receiver spring, arrange a
mouthpiece over the drum-head-
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. Carly creets Or. Bell.
One OF the first to greet DIR. Bell
as he entered was John Joseph Carly,
Chief 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 to
ways be distinguished because through
its 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
MS 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
IAdiiiSt tIAdt 4kAIS LHS IIlIUO Win 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
From there he has spoken through the
length and breadth of our land 10 the
state state OF California, forty-four hundred
distance ever achieved by the voice of
man.
I'VE 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
llrst 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 We'll as when he used our stand
ard transmitter but we'll enough to be I'm
derstood, we may be sure, and loud
enough to excite most pleasing senti-
talking over one of our modern lines,
spoke across the continent more distinct
~ than it ever did from one room to an
other over the best line OF former days.
Thus docs this homely first instrument
give testimony to the marvellous improve
nents made In Its plant by the Bell com
pany during these intense intervening
years
Mr.. Carly escorted DR.. Bell to the
strange looking transmitter and it's 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 hear me well?o 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
CT being more than 5000 miles away.
You remember. Mr.. Watson, that eve
ming, SO years ago when we conversed
through the telephone on real line
for the first time?"
YES, indeed answered Watson,
that line was two miles long, running
from Boston to Cambridge. You were
cverjoyed at the success of the exper-
iment.''
I'VE 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 for
the return now as we used it 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. I am
now talking through an exact dupli-
cate of the first telephone which vas
made in June. 1875, continued DR..
Roll sscaD Won hear nlee'