Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1915-10-06
1900 MILES BY
WIRELESS TELEPHONE
Speech Flashed From Virginia
to HonuIuIu, on the Pacific
Ocean.
American Telephone and Telegraph
Co. Engineers, Working With Repre-
ssntatlvss OF United States Navy
Accomplish Wonderful Feat

Following close on the heels of tho
news OF q 2,6Oo-milo talk by wireless
telephone, on September 49, came an
announcement a few hours later which
has set the public to thinking and the
scientific world to rejoicing. The an
nouncoment contained the news that
the human voice had been flashed by
wireless telephone from Washington.
d. c.. to Honolulu. in the Pacino
Ocean, $500 miles away.
Tho human voice was transmitted
1y wireless telephone on September
20 from Arlington, Va, to the Mare
Island Navy Yard. near San Francisco,
California, q distance OF about $500
miles. creating a new worlds record
in wireless telephony.
This remarkable feat was brought
about by the engineers OF the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany working in conjunction with the
officials OF the United States Navy.
The first message was sent by Theo-
dore n. Vail. President OF the Com
pany by wire to Arlington and from
Arlington to Mare Island by wireless.
This makes the demonstration still
moro wonderful. The message jumped
from wire to wireless without a break.
Seated in his office at Is Dey street,
OF his telephone and spoke in an even
tone OF voice to John j. Carly, Chief
Engineer OF the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company, who was at
Mare Island.
Hello. Carly. This is Mr.. Vail"
Almost instantly came back Mr..
Carty's voice over the line.
This is fine. This is wonderful"
Owing to the fact that the equip
ment at Mare Island at present con-
sists OF q receiving station only, Mr..
Carty's reply came across the CONT
nent by way OF the trans continental
telephone line.
Listeners at the naval stations at
Ban Diego, California, and Panama
also caught Mr.. Wallis words and their
confederation Of the success Of the e1-
pertinent was wired later Following
Mr.. Vail came Union n. Bethel,
senior vice president of the Company.
John l. Waterbury, one Of the direct
ors. Bancroft Gherardi, engineer OF
plant, and each OF them talked across
the $500 miles OF space-unbridged,
save by the wireless fashes-and each
OF them was plainly heard on the other
side OF the continent. Ex-senator
Murray Crane was present at the time
OF the trial.
Ut several months the engineers OF
The American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company. The Western Electric
Company and the United States Navy
have been quietly working on this new
and startling wire-and- wireless idea
and they were out in force TO see IL
given public try-out.
on the evening OF the same day, Mr..
Carly. to whom most OF the credit be-
longs. In the offices of the telephone
company at San Francisco granted
trans-continental telephone interview
TO several newspaper men in New
York.
ut is hard 20 say precisely" said
Mr. Carly over the long line, what
Will be the commercial value OF the de-
veIopment. The wireless telephone
will never be relied upon 20 do tho
work Of the wire. It will be chiefly
useful I'm extending telephone com
muncstiOn 90 out-of- the-way places
deserts great heights and on the sea"
Mr.. Carly was asked over the wire
by one OF the reporters in New York
II " would be possible to talk over a
wire then zap OF wireless, and then
a wire al the other end
"Oh. yes" ne replied. II might as
we'll have sat here in the San Fran
cisco Offices today and received the
m.
You will. for instance. be able 10 call
London from your New York office
and be connected with your London
correspondent. who will SIT I'm his Of
fee at his regular wire there"
The same evening, Mr.. Vail sent
tho following telegram to- Secretary
OF tho Navy Daniels:
Personally, and as President Of
Tho American Telephone and TeIe-
graph Company, ] wish 90 express 70
you my thanks for the courtesy OF tho
Navy Department in extending 20 us
the privilege Of connecting special
wireless telephone apparatus 10 tho
Navy Department wireless telegraph
towers. BY means OF this special ap-
paratus we have today successfully
carried on wireless telephone COM
munication from the Atlantic 20 the
Pacific Coast"
Secretary Daniels gave out a state
mont loo which ne stated that ne was
pleased 90 announce the successful
outcome OF the experiments and that
the feat was successfully accomplished
In the presence Of officials and enRi-
neers ~ the telephone company and
the electric company. a representative
OF the Signal Corps Of the Army. and
representative Of tho Navy He fur
Wcr stated that every Official taking
was onthugiastlc about tho re-
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