The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-02-02
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS
lined BY BELL TELEPHONE Line
President Wallis Engineers Make 1t Possible For President
Wilson to Send His Voice Across the
Continent instantly.
BELL VAIL AND WATSON, CREATORS OF TELEPHONE,
EXCHANGE GREETINGS OVER 44oo-MIL
Celebration
Congratulate


talking from one part of the room to an
other- amt as the transmitted speech
was, it became at once the marvel of all
the world, causing scientists as we'll as
IayInen 10 exclalm with wonder. Starting
with theSe feeble instruments only the
Bell Company, by persistent study and in
ceSsant expenditures of immense sums of
money, created an entire new art, invent
ing, oeVefoplng and perfecting, making
improvements, great and small in tele-
phone transmitter, line, cable, switch
BOARD ana every other piece of apparatus
and plant required for the transmission
OF speech. AS the latest product of this
unceaslng organized effort there has been
oeolcated to the service of the public to-
gay transcontinental line 3.400 miles
long, Joining the Atlantic and the Pacific
ana carrying the human voice instantly
and distinctly between San Francisco and
New YORK and Boston and Washington.
Inns telephone line is part of the Bell
system of q, 900 miles of wire connect
ing 100000 telephone stations located ev-
e cry mere throughout the United States
ana giving to the American people tele-
phone service unparalleled among the ma
tons of the earth"
On table in President Wallis Office
IN 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
mead over wooden receiver ioin the
center OF the drum head to the free
end or receiver spring. arrange
mouthp1ece over the drum-head-and
there you have it.
mere was further reminder of the
telephones babyhood in a coil of wire
connected with the transmitter. This
was part of the original wire over
Whlch DIR. Bell spoke the first words
ever uttered by telephone, in his
boarding house at Exeter Place,
Boston,
J. j. Carly Greets Dr.. Bell
one OF the first to greet DR.. Bell
as he entered was John Joseph Carly.
Ch1ef 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
It's 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 thirtysix 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
manner that fills the mind with amaze
ment. By using his wonderful Bell svs-
tenn of organized men and organized wires
he has talked to us here at New York
If from an island eleven hundred miles to
the south near the coast of Florida
From there he has spoken through the
length and breadth of our land to the
state of California forty-four hundred
miles away, thus attaining the longest
distance ever achieved by the voice of
man.
w, We 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 usas 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
first among men to talk by the electric
telephone and Watson was the first to
hear.
ton of this electric speaking telephone
employed by Bell and Watson when first
they talked to each other by wire.
Through this instrument Doctor Re1l 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 well as when he used our stand
ard transmitter but well enough to be un-
derstood, we may be sure, and loud
enough to excite a most pleasing senti-
ment. This original type of telephone
talking over one of our modern lines.
spoke across the continent more distinct
ly than it ever did from one room to an
Thus does this homely first instrument
give testimony to the marvellous improve
ments made in it's 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 weH?' 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
of being more than 5000 miles away.
You remember, Mr. Watson, that eve
ming, 38 years ago when we conversed
through the telephone on real line
for the first timer"
Yes, indeed" answered Watson,
that line was two miles long, running
from Boston to Cambridge. You were
overjoyed 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
L 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. Il am
now talking through an exact dupli-
cate of the first telephone which was
made in June. 1875" continued Dr.
Bell, can you hear me?"
Il hear perfectly, though less dis
tinctly than with the other, OF course"
answered Mr. Watson.
Mr. Bell switched back tOathe stand