Semi-weekly herald., 1915-10-18

Ger, uitdilitE Ol uIediIlS lltt come true
(he perfected the wireless phone
through which Washington officials
recently talked 5000 miles from the
capital to Hawaii, and with which the
human voice may some day circle the
globe, you know, was in San Francis
co when the United Press editor
phoned his assignment to me from
New York.
Accordingly, l found Mr.. Carly and
he told me something of 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 acros the continent on the
wire and be connected with Toxic
on the wireless telephone.
From New York that is about s.
00o miles.
But Bill Smith won't be able to use
wireless telephone to talk to Tom
Jones down in another office build
ing in the same town. The wireless
isn't meant for that, and it wont sup
plant the telephone or the wireless
telegraph.
The little man with the black hair,
just tinging with gray and the sharp
black eyes peering out from under
shaggy eyebrows, sat in the temporary
office of the A. T. q T. Co, her
and discussed his dream of talking
across the continent and thence to
Hawaii which had just come true.
He personally made wireless tele-
phony commercial possibility, but
it was of his company he spoke,
scarcely ever, "I.'
eve don't expect th.t there will
be such thing as carrying a pocket
phone around and connecting up with
anybody anywhere in the world" he
said.
what we do expect, though, is
that the wireles telephone will be
available for ships, and particularly
for small craft, so that one may talk
to the other or to the shore.
at is castor to talk wireIessly over
water than over land, and while we
have talked across the continent, we
think the practical outcome will be
that the man, say in New York, will
talk across the continent by wire and
be conected with the wireless. /
think it viii be possible for him in
this way to talk to Tokyo.
"Ihe real development we expect,
however, to be on ships.
You sec it's very easy to talk
across country now" he said putting
up a Connection between the United
Press Offices in New York and San
Francisco for the correspondent. It
was very easy. Just like talking
through AN open door to man in
the hallway.
That, however, will be stretched out
SO that it spans lands and the oceans.
The feat accomplished in talking from
New York to San Francisco and
Hawaii, he poined ont, makes it
certainty that one may talk to Eu-
rope.
There are three main reasons, as
Carey explained it, why wireless
telephony connot come into general
use; that is supplant the usual COM
mercial telephone:
First, great roar that spreads
the outer and transfers to
the wireless set; second the lack of
secrecy; and third the inability to
spread so many comunicatlons on one
Zine" as can be done with the wire
system.
The roar, he expects will be over
come to some extent. He has found
he can hear clearly in talking to New
York, but there are static Interrupt
tions. He is now working to smooth
out this difficulty also on completing
the system of response.
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transmission in only one direction,
but Carly is now working on both
sending and receiving instruments.
Carly has other big ideas back of
those keen black eyes. But he isn't
telling them.
"You know, Mr.. Wallis orders are to
do it and talk about it afterward,"
he said.
What do you think will be the
next achievement in science?" he was
asked
"I wonder" he unused, Science
has made great steps, hasn't it?"
A farmer went into a hardware
store and while purchasing some tools
was asked by the proprietor if he did
not want to buy a bicycle