The Little River news., 1915-10-23
HUMAN VOICE IS TRANSMITTED FROM ATLANTIC SEAEOARD
 TO HONOLULU.
< DISTANCE OF A,0oO ElLES
Rems rkable Demonstration of Ameri- can Telegraph C Telephone Com pany Engineers Regarded as Marvellous Triunph of
 Science.


 tic seaboard to Hawaii-a distance of 4,600 miles-is an accomplished fact. By the special wireless telephone de velopments 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 a 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 MT. Vail, president of the company, had talked by wireless from Washing ton to MT. Carty, it's 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 2,500 miles-before it en- countered 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 ican Telephone & Telegraph Com pany, seated at his desk at 15 Dey street, New York, talked into 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 it was heard by John T. Carty, chief engineer of ;he American Teie- phone & Telegraph Company, ard others.
 The following statement was made by MT. Vail after the successful de- monstration of wireless telephony be- tween Washington. D C.. 1ld Hawaii:
 ''I do not think that I can better express my views in regard to wireless telephony than to Cuore the telegram which l have just sent to Mr. Carty. the chief engineer Of ttis company:
 "Carty: l want to congratulate you on yesterdays climax in the way of achievements. the greatest in in. tercommunication that rha world has ever seen.
 "'To you and the wonderful staff created by you, the world owes a debt.
 ITO throw your voice directly with out the aid of wires from Washington to Hawaii. nearly 5000 miles, a great CT distance from New York to Paris, Berlin, Vienna or Petrog"ad and great CT than that between Seattle and Tokio and Yokohoma. was wonderful but to send the recognized voice part way over wire and part through the air was still more wonderful and was the demonstration of tEe chiefest use that will probably attach to the wire less as simplifying and supplementng, not substituting, the wire system and bring into conversational communica- tion ships, islands and pltces which cannot otherwise be reached Your work has indeed brought us one long step nearer our ideal" Universal System"