Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-02-16

| talking from one part OF the room to an
! other Faint as the transmitted speech
! was, II became at once the marvel of al
me word. causing scientists well a,
| layrnen TO SXciaim with wonder. Startins
| with these feeble Instruments only IN,
| Bell Company, by persistent study and in
cessant expenditures of immense sums O.
money, created an entire new art invent
ing developing and perfecting makins
improvements, great and small in tele
phone transmitter, line, cable. switch
board and every otter piece of apparatu.
ana plant required for the transmission
or speech As the latest product of thi:
unceasing organized effort, there has beer
dedicated to the service of the public to
DAY transcontinental line 3400 mile:
long, Joining the Atlantic and the Pacific
and carrying the human voice instantly
ana distinctly between San Francisco anC
New York and Boston and Washington
Inns telephone line is part of the Bel
System of 1000 COO miles of wire connect
ing 100000 telephone stations located ey.
erywhere throughout the United States
and giving to the American people tele-
phone service unparalleled among the ma
On table in President VaiPs office
in New York was a replica of the
nrst telephone transmitter to carry
the human voice. 1t looked to be a
crude enough affair. Tie down drum.
mead over a wooden receiver. join the
center OF the drum-head to the free
END OF a receiver spring. arrange a
moutnplece over the drum-head-and
there you have it.
mere 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 Exeter Place
Boston.
J. J. Carly Greets Dr.. Bell
Cha or the first to greet DR.. Bell
as he entered was John Joseph Carty.
Chief 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
which today has been dedicated to
the service OF the public must al
ways De distinguished because through
us copper wires the voice of the Chief
magistrate OF this nation has for the hrst
time 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
with magic speed across rivers and plains
and mountains. instantly reaching san
francisco where in clear tones il smoke
his message of congra tulation IN rnar, IF
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 nils the mind with amaze
ment BY using his wonderful Bell sys-
tenn of organized men and organized wires
he has talked to Us here at New York
from an island eleven hundred miles to
the south, near the coast of Florida
tnETA a.
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
I'VE are filled with grateful feelings
that Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas
"A. watson nave 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 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 ov the electric
telephone and Watson was The first to
hear. -
There is before us an exact renroduo-
ton. of this electric speaking telephone
employed by Bell and Watson when first
they talked to each other by 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.
"Of course he was not heard by any
means as We'll as when he used our stand
ard transmitter but well enough TO be m
derstood, we may be sure and loud
enough to eXcite most pleasing senti-
ment This original type of telephone
spoke across the continent more distinct
ly than it ever did from one room to an
other over the best line of former DAYS
Thus does this homely first instrument
y TDC ~ e
ments maze in its plant by the Bell com
pany during these intense intervening
years"
Mr.. Carly escorted DIR. Bell to the
strange looking transmitter and it's in
ventor pressed his lips to the mouth.
piece.
Bell and Watson Talk.
Alloy! Ahoyi 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 San
Francisco.
Yes, your voice is perfectly dis
tinct," said Bell. ut is as clear as If
you were here in New York instead
of being more than 5000 miles away.
L
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 TT the success Of the exper-
lment."
I'VE 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"
Il want to switch in another tele-
phone and talk to you through that
said DR.. Bell, and suiting the action to |
he word he switched in a replica of |
MS first telephone instrument. Il 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
.inctly than with the other, of course"
answered Mr. Watson.
Mr.. Bell switched back to the stand
ares in accordance with the Interstate
commerce commission order and in