The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-11-03
Talks 1000 Miles 7
by Wirel IS Phone
Officials of Telephone Company
Send Message from Atlantic
Coast to Hawaii

Wireless telephony from the
Atlantic coast to Hawaii, 1900
miles, a distance greater than
from Seattle to Toxic, Japan, is
an accomplished fact. By the
special wireless telephone devel-
opments which have been made
by the engineers Of the Bell Tele-
phone System, speech was trans
mitted last Wednesday night
from Washington, D. c., to
wireless station near Honolulu.
This last triumph came but a
few hours after Theodore N.
Vail, the President of the Bell
Company, had talked by wire
less from New York to John j.
Carly, it's chief engineer, who
was at Mare Island near San
Francisco.
Crossed Continent
This wonderful wireless tele-
phone message from Washington
to Hawaii had to pass over the
whole of the United States be-
fore it encountered the more
simple wireless conditions which
exist when sending over large
bodies of water. For the pur-
pose of this test the sending was
done from a wireless station at
Arlington. just outside OF Wash
ington. The receiving was done
on a small wireless station spec
tally erected for the purpose by
the engineers of the Bell Com
pany at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
The results obtained in talk
ing by wireless telephone from
New York and Washington to
San Francisco and Hawaii, were
elimination of long and very
important Investigations and
discoveries which have been
made by engineers of the Bell
Telephone System. These inves-
legations have extended over a
considerable period. During the
early spring of this year, as a
result of the work already done,
the engineers of the telephone
company talked over distance of
about $50 miles, using for the
purpose an experimental tower
which they had erected near
Montauk Point, L. l., and small
tower borrowed for the purpose
at st. Simon's Island, Ga.
The results of these tests so
conclusively demonstrated the
correctness of their work and
it's possibilities that steps were
Immediately taken to try dis
tances comparable with those in
volved in transatlantic tele-
phony, and, indeed, even looking
to trans-Pacific telephony. What
the results of these further tests
have been is shown by the talks
to San Francisco and Hawaii.
Connect with Wires
Another interesting feature of
the tests was the connecting of
the wireless telephone appara-
tus with a wire telephone line.
Mr.. Vail in his talk used a wire
from New York to Washington.
At Washington, by special means
invented and developed by the
engineers of the Bell Company,
| the wires were connected to
special wireless apparatus where
| the message went wirelessly to
it's destination.
| The Bell Telephone officials be-
that wireless telephony has an
important place in the general
! scheme of communication. They
expect that it will form a most
important adjunct and extension
to their existing means Of COM
munication, simplifying and sup
pIementing but not substituting
the wire service. It will enable
communication with moving
trains, ships at sea, and other
places where it is impractical to
| extend wires. Telephone officials
say that wireless telephony can
never take the place Of wire sys-
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