Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-10-07
HUMAN VOICE IS TRANSMITTED
FROM ATLANTIC sEAsoARp
TO HONOLULU.
A DISTANCE OF $500 MILES
Remarkable Demonstration Of Ameri-
can Telegraph 6 Telephone Com
pany Engineers Regarded as
Marvellous Triumph Of
Science.

Wireless telephony from the Allan
tic seaboarG to Hawaii-a distance OF |
1900 miles-is an accomplished fact. |
BY the special wireless telephone de-
yelopments 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 29th from
Washington to wireless station in
Honolulu. If anything further was
needed to show the wonderful 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 tele-
! phone communication is assured as
soon as the disturbed condition in
! Europe will permit of tests from this
country is obvious when it 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 it en-
cuuntered 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 a 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 a 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 il was heard by John T. Carly
chief engineer of the American Tele
}. phone & Telegraph Company, ant
others.
The following statement was made
by Mr.. Vail after the successful de
! monstration of wireless telephony be
| tween Washington, ID. c., and Hawaii
| 81 do not think that / can bette
/ express my views in regard to wireless
| telephony than to quote the Telegram
1 which l have just sent to Mr. Carly
| the chief engineer of this company
/ "'Carty: | want to congratulate
you on yesterdays climax in the. wa
of achievements, the greatest in II
accommodation that the world ha
ever seen.
"'To you and the wonderful stai
created by you. the world owes
debt.
"'To throw your voice directly wiz;
out the aid of wires from Washingto
to Hawaii, nearly 5000 miles, a grea
er distance from New York to Pari
Berlin, Vienna or Petrograd and grea
er than that between Seattle an
. Toxic and Yokohoma, was wonderful
= but to send the recognized voice pa
Fl way over wire and part through I'll
air was still more wonderful and wa
the demonstration of the chiefest Vi
that will probably attach to the wir
less as simplifying and supplemental
not substituting. the wire system ar
bring into conversational commune
ton ships, islands and places whiC
cannot otherwise be reached. Yol
work has indeed brought US one loI
step nearer our ideal a "Univers
System"