East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-10-18
BY c. D. GRoAT.


story:
BY C. D. GROAT.
Omitted Press staff Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. Ii
]. ]. Carty, A. T. & T, chief engineer
dreamer of dreams that come true
Che perfected the wireless phone
through which washington officials
recently talked 5000 miles from the
capitol to Hawaii, and with which the
human voice may some day circle
the CLONE you know, was in san
Francisco the day the Red Letter Ed
itor phoned his assignment to me
from New York.
Accordingly, I found Mr.. Carty
and he told me something cf his
dreams for wireless telephony.
Some day he opined, Bill Smith
may sit in his office in New York,
Chicago, Seattle or San Francisco,
ring up across the continent on the
wire and be connected with the wire
less telephone to Tokyo.
From New York, that is about S.
900.
But. Bill Smith won't be able to
use wireless telephone to talk to
Tom Jones down in another office
building in the same town. The
wireless isn't meant for that, and i
won't supplant the telephone or th'
/ wireless telegraph.
The little man with the black hair
just tinging with gray; and the sharl
black eyes peering out from unde
shaggy eyebrows, sat in the tempo
rary office of the A. T. & T. Co
here and discussed his DEAN of talk
ing across the continent and theme
to Hawaii. which had just come true
He personally had made wireles
telephony a commercial possibility
but it was Of his company that h
spoke-scarcely ever, II"
I'VE don't expect that there'n b
such a thing as carrying a poeke
phone around and connecting up Wit
anybody anywhere in the world h
said.
What we do expect, thouSh,
that the wireless telephone will b
available for ships and particular
for small craft, so that one may tai
to the other or to the shore.
1T is easier to talk wirelessly ov'
water than over land, and while v
NAV have talked across the contnel
we think the practical outcome VI
be that the man, sag in New Yor
will talk across the continent by wi
and Be conencted with the wireles
7 think it will be possible for hi
in this way to talk to Tokyo.
THE real development We expe'
however, to be on ships.
You see it's very easy to ia
across country now" he said, putin
up a connection between the Unit
Press offices in New York and s.
Francisco for the correspondent
was very easy. Just like talkil
through an open door to a man
the hallway.
That however, will be stretch
out so that it spans lands and t
oceans. The feat accomplished
talking frem New York to San FRA
cisco and Hawaii, he pointed o.
makes it a certainty that one m
talk to Europe.
There are three main reasons,
Carty explained it. why wireless te
phony cannot come into general IA.
that is. supplant the usual comm'
cial telephone:
First a great roar that sFrea
through the other and transfers
the wireless set; second, the lack
secrecy: and. third. the inability
spread so many communications
one Tine" as can be done with
wire system.
The roar. he expects will be oy
come to some extent He has foV
he can hear clearly IN talking to n
York. but there are static intern
tions. He Is now working to smoi
out this difficulty also on eemplet
the system Of response
on his original tests there
transmits in only one dlrectl
but Carty is now working out b
sending and receiving instruments
Carty has other big ideas back
those keen back eyes. But ne Is
telling them. "You know. Mr.. Va
orders are TO do It and talk abou
afterward," he said.
What do you think will be
next great achievement in scienc
he was asked.
81 wonder" he mused. "Scie
has made great steps, hasn't IT."
II is better for a girl TO underst'
r,ia raptnas than football rules