The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1915-12-02
HUMAN VOICE is TRANSMITTED
FROM ATLANTIC sEAeOARD
TO HONOLULU.
A DISTANCE OF 1900 MILES
Remarkable Demonstration Of Ameri-
can Telegraph & Telephone Com
pany Engineers Regarded a.
Marvellous Triumph Of
Science.

Wireless telephony from the Allan
tic seaboard to Hawaii distance OF
1900 miles-is an accomplished fact.
BY the special wireless telephone de-
velopments which have been made by
the engineers Of the American Tele-
graph and Telephone Company and OF
the Western Electric Company speech
was transmitted September goth from
Washington to wireless station IN
Honolulu II anything further was
needed to show the W" derful capac-
ity Of these new discoveries by the
engineers Of the Bell System, this last
triumph coming but few hours after
Mr.. Vail. president Of the company,
had talked by wireless from Washing
ton to Mr. Carly. its chief engineer,
, located at Mare Island near San Fran
,, cisco. Cal, is conclusive.
That transatlantic wireless te'e
| phone communication is assured as
soon as the disturbed condition in
| Europe will permit of tests from this
| country is obvious when 1t is remem-
bered that all scientists agree on the
fact that it is more difficult to send
wireless telephone communications
| across land than across water This
wonderful wireless telephone message
from Washington to Hawaii had to
pass over the entire United States-a
distance of $500 miles-before 1t en-
countered the more simple wireless
conditions which exist over large
bodies Of water.
For the purpose Of this test the
sending was done from the navy wire
less station at Arlington. just outside
of Washington. D. c. The message
was received by q small wireless ap
paratus at the United States naval
station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Wireless telephony has been the
goal of the American Telephone &
Telegraph Company ever since it sue
ceeded in establishing the transconti-
mental communication by wire last
January. Prior to sending the wire
less telephone message to Hawaii.
President. Theo N Vail, of the Amer
lean Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany. seated at his desk at Is Dey
street New York talked into Bell
telephone instrument and his voice
| carried by wire to the radio station OF
the navy department at Arlington, D.
c.. and from there through the air to
the radio station at Mare Island, Cal,
where it was heard by John T. Carly,
| chief engineer Of The American Teie-
phone & Telegraph Company, and
others.
The following statement was made
by Mr. Vail after the successful de-
| monstration of wireless telephony be-
tween Washington, p c., I'D Hawaii:
Il do not think that l can better
express my views in regard to wireless
telephony than to quote the telegram
which | have just sent to Mr.. Carly.
TIE chief engineer Of this company:
"'Carty: | want to congratulate
you on yesterdays climax in the way
of achievements, the greatest IN in
Accommodation that tna world has
ever seen.
Ito you and the wonderful staff
created by you, the world owes a
debt.
ITO throw your voice directly with
out the aid OF wires from Washington
to Hawaii, nearly 5000 miles a great
er distance from New York to Paris,
Berlin, Vienna or Petrograd and great
er than that between Seattle and
Toxic and Yokohoma. was wonderful,
but to send the recognized voice part
way over wire and part through the
air was still more wonderful and was
the demonstration of the choicest use
that will probably attach to the wire
less as simplifying and supplementing,
not substituting, the wire system and
bring into conversational communica-
ton ships, islands and places which
cannot otherwise be reached. Your
work has indeed brought us one long
step nearer our ideal Universal
System"
"As you will see from this, 1t Is
clear that wireless will never substi-
tute or supplant the wire systems but
will greatly amplify them and extend
their usefulness. 1t is humanitarian
rather than commercial. but it is use
full in that it makes conversation pos
sible between places and between
places and moving objects, and be-
tween moving objects that could not
: be connected by wire. AS with the
: wireless telegraph, it probably never
: will be dependable enough except as
| outlined above"
u. n Bethel, Senior Vice-Presi-
| dent of the A. T. & T. Company, who
also talked over the wireless tele-
phone and was present when Mr.. Vail