The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-02-06


laymen 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
and plant required for the transmission
OF speech. As the latest product Of this
unceasing organized effort. there has been
daa to the serycs Of the Public to-
long, joining the Atlantic and the Pacific
and carrying the human voice instantly
and distinctly between San Francisco and
This telephone line is part Of the Bell
system of 2l,000.000 miles OF wire connect
ing 100000 telephone stations located ev-
erywhere throughout the United States
and giving to the American people tele-
phone service unparalleled among the ma
tons Of the earth"
On q table In President Wallis ONCE
in New York was a replica Of the
first telephone transmitter to carry
the human voice. 1t looked to be a
crude enough affair. Tie down a drum
head over wooden receiver, Join the
center of the drumhea to the free
end OF receiver spring, arrange a
mouthpiece over the drum-head-and
there you have it.
There was further reminder of the
telephones babyhood in coil Of wire
connected with the transmitter. This
was part OF the original wire over
which DR.. Bell spoke the first words
ever uttered by telephone. in his
boarding house at 5 Exeter Place,
| Boston.
J. ). Carly oreets Or. Bell.
One of the first to greet DR.. Bell
as he entered was John Joseph Carly,
Chief Engineer of the American Tele.
phone and Telegraph Company, under
whose direction the transcontinental
line was built. Mr.. Cartyssaid: Q
This greatest Of telephone lines
which today 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
time In our history been transmitted from
the seat OF government att Washington
westward thirty-six hundred miles to tho
shores of the Pacific. Over this line the
voice Of President Wilson was carried
and mountains. instantly reaching san
Francisco where in clear tones II spoke
his 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
tenn Of organized men and organized wires
he has talked to US here at New York
from an island eleven hundred miles to
me r,a,, south ,h.a near n the coast Of Florida
length and breadth OF our land to the
state of California. forty-four hundred
miles away. thus attaining the longest
man.
I'VE 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 was the first to conceive OF the true
method and apparatus for transmitting
speech electrically ,,s ally and Mr. Watson. fol-
by Doctor Bell, constructed with his own
hands the first telephone. Bell was the
hrst among men to talk by the electric
| hear
There is before us an exact reproduc-
ton, of this electric speaking telephone
they talked 10 each other bw wirs '
Through this instrument Doctor He'll has
again talked to Mr.. Watson, but this time
how vast is the distance and how great
"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.
enough to excite most pleasing senti.
ment. This original type of telephone
| talking over one OF our modern lines
spoke across the continent more distinct
other over the best line of former DAYS
Thus does this homeiy first instrumen,
give testimony to the marvellous improve.
:.ients made In is plant by the Bell com.
pany during these intense intervening
| Mr.. Carly escorted DR.. Bell to the
strange looking transmitter and its In
ventor pressed his lips to the mouth
piece.
i 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 well?" replied Mr.
Watson at his end of the line in Sar
Francisco.
YES, your voice ia perfectly dis
tinct," said Bell. st is as clear as Il
you were here in New York insteat
of being more than 5000 miles away
You remember, Mr.. Watson, that eve
ming, 3S years ago when we converses
through the telephone on q real lint
for the FIRST timer"
Yes, indeed answered Watson
that line was two miles long. runninl
from Boston TO Cambridge. You wer'
overjoyed at the success Of the exper
| iment."
"wshre talking over s.loo miles q
easily and clearly az we talked owe
two miles SS years ago." said Prof
| Bell.
"The telephone mon have csrtainl,
done wonderful things with your n
| vention since that hrst outdoor test,
! said Mr.. Watson. I'VE must not foI
get that the circuit We are tslkinl
| over Il really $500 miles long. g q
/ course. the earth cannot b used 70
the return now. - We used e thon.''
/ Il want to dWitch - another tel<
Iphono and Talk 70 yoo Through Tat.
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