The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-02
COMPLETION FRS!
TRANSCONTINENTAL PHONE INF
President Wilson, Mayor Mitchell, Of New York. DR.. Bell.
Noted Inventor, and Other Noted Men Participate
In Event.

'iA Cot1oil tlC TIA nSoOnJlnont2l
was built. Today was not Mr.. Cartv's
hrst in the making of telephone his
Tory. lie has been doing it ever since
Dr Bell gave the mbra trans
Inltter TO a group Of his friends and
ie1t IL TO them to maxi it a universal
household servant Mr.. Carly is the
organizer of what might be called the
first telephone university, and under
his direction the art of telephony was
developed.
The Early Days.
mere were those in President
ans office who could remember the
Tune when there were only three tele-
phone engineers in the world. Today
Mr.. Carly heads more than 500 en-
| g%ineers.
Mr.. Carly escorted DR.. Bell to the
strange looking transmitter and it's
inventor pressed his lips to the mouth
piece.
Alloy! Alloy! Can you hear me?"
asked Mr.. Bell and instantly there was
a murmur in the receiver audible to
everyone in the room. Out in San
Francisco in the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph Company, Thomas A.
Watson had heard the voice Of his
old-tlme associate signalling in the
they had employed in their
earliest experiments, and had an
swered: Il can near perfectly"
Liz Ic1cP11OIC ndU GROWN So
that it could be taken outdoors on
October 9, 1876, DR.. Bell had called
"Ahoy!" across two miles of wire just
as he was calling now across three
thousand, and it was not until some
time later that Hello was used.
New York To Frisco.
The remarkable talk between Dr.
Bell in New York II Mr.. Watson il
San Francisco was as follows:
DIR. Rpll lin New YOrkN. EAhov
Alloy! MI. Watson. Are you there
Do you hear me?'
!, Mr.. Watson Gin San Francisco)
"Yes, DR.. Bell, ] hear you perfectly
Do you near me wen?"
: Bell: Eyes. Your voice is perfect
ly distinct. 1t is as clear as if yo7
were here in New York instead Of be
o ing more than 5000 miles away. D
: you remember, Mr.. Watson, tina
g evening So ear ago when we con
versed through the telephone on req
line for the first timer"
Watson: Eyes indeed. That lin
f was two miles long, running fro1
Boston to Cambridge. You WEI
k overjoyed at the success Of the e2
pertinent"
Bell: I'VE are talking 3,400 mile
as easily and clearly as we talke
only two miles 38 years ago."
Watson: "The telephone men hay
Certainly lone WOIOcIlUl tllllSS wit
= your invention since that first GU
door test. We must not forget tn;
~ the circuit we are talking over
, really $4,000 miles long. AS,
e course, the earth canno be used f
:; the return now as we used it then"
- Bell: II want to switch in anoth
-, telephone and talk to you throue
that" (Switches in the first tel
~ phone.
~ Bell: Il am now talking throus
T. an exact duplicate Of the first tel
~ phone which was mad IN Jur
90 1875. Can you hear me?
Watson 'a:s II hear it pc perfect feet,
Of course (NoW switching back
~ the standard transmitter.)
Bell: What wonderful progre
~ has been made by the Bell Syste
since hen to enable u voices to
Ia transmitted over a circuit of 6,S
miles without the least appearance
:; distortion or weakness"
Watson: Their work has been s
"a perb and also has the discipline
e e the organization that watches eve
o inch Of this long circuit to Safegua
e those feeble vibrations or the ma
o. things hat might Interfere W
| them"
TO Bell: al honor to the men W
~ have rendered his great achievem'
er, ppoomn 80 - IYnitad Sto+es U;+-
" sound Of one mothers voices 9
a. united them now into one gr
But
af- Cafty 70 vail.
he Following the talk etween
or Bell and Mr.. Watson, Mr.. Carly ia
in ed with President Vail at Je
II Island Ca Mr.. Vail then talked
hat Or. Bell IN new ioIh eAciiahS
Bell CONGRATULATIONS ana tneh the COM
n it ton was ~estaphsneu between -
Island and San Francisco, a dista
the Of 4,90O miles and Mr.. Vail in Je
wire Island talked 10 Mr.: watson IN
mis- Francisco, beaking all records for
,ver long distance transmission of spe'
)rdS Mayor Mltchel, OIL New toIh,
his George preSloeht OIL
ace, New YORK Doaru OF -alueIlhen, ldi
had with Mayor Itoiph az san rralcl