Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-02-04

otACi. DIS the transmitted SDoech
was II became at once the marvel of all
the world, causing scientists as well as
iaymen to exclaim 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, developing and perfecting, making
improvements, great and small in tele-
phone transmitter. line, cable switch
ooaro and every other piece of apparatus
and plant required for the transmission
or speech AS the latest product of this
unceasing organized effort. there has been
dedicated to the service of the public to-
gay transcontinental line 3.4OO miles
long, joining the Atlantic and the Pacific
ana carving the human voice instantly
and distinctly between San Francisco and
New York and Boston and Washington.
This telephone line is part of the Bell
system Of 21OO0,000 miles of wire connect
ing 9oO'ooo telephone stations located ev-
eryWhere throughout the United States
ana giving to the American people tele-
phone service unparalleled among the ma
lions OF the EARTH"
On table in President Wallis Office
IN New York was replica of the
nrst telephone transmitter to carry
the human voice. It looked to be a
crude enough affair. Tie down a drum
head over wooden receiver. join the
center OF the drum-head to the free
END OF receiver spring, arrange
moutnplece 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
winch DIR. Bell spoke the first words
ever uttered by telephone, in his
boarding house at 5 Exeter Place.
Boston.
J. j. Carly Greets Dr.. Bell.
one OF the first to greet DIR. Bell
as ne entered was John Joseph Carly,
Chle1 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
Melcn sert tGday Of 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
tlme 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
and mountains, instantly reaching San
francisco where in clear tones it spoke
MS message Of congratulation to men of
achievement.
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
ne has talked to us here at New York
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.
eve are filled with grateful feelings
that Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas
A. Watson have today talked to each 9TH
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
first among men to talk by the electric
telephone and Watson was the first to
hear.
''There is before us an exact reproduce
ton of this electric speaking telephone
employed by Bell and Watson when first
they talked to each other bv 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.
means as we'll as when he used our stand
ard transmltter 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
~ than it ever did from one room to an
other over the best line of former days
Thus does this homely first instrument
give testimony to the marvellous improve
ments made in it's plant by the Bell COM
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.
Eyes, Mr.. Bell, hear you perfectly
Do you hear me well?" replied Mr.
Watson at his end of the line in San
Francisco
Eyes, your voice is perfectly dis
tinct,' said Bell. "It 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 a 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."
1--WE 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
II 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 replica of
his first telephone instrument. II 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.
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