Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-10-20
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WIRELESS TELEPHONE
Bell Officials Send Message From A.
lantic Coast to Hawaii.

Bell Officials Send Message From A.
lantic Coast to Hawaii.
John Williams, the local manager,
gave US the following facts regarding
the recent wireless telephony from
the Atlantic coast to Hawaii, 4,600I
miles, a distance greater than from
Seattle to Toxic, Japan, is an accom-
plished fact. BY the special WIRE
less telephone developments which
have been made by the engineers of
the Bell Telephone System, speech
was transmitted last Wednesday night
from Washington, D. c., to a WIRE
less station near Honolulu. This last
triumph came but a few hours after
Theodore N. Vail, the President of
the Bell Company, had talked by
wireless from New York to John J.
Carly, its chief engineer, who was at
Mare Island near San Francisco.
This wonderful wireless telephone
message from Washington to Hawaii
had to pass over the whole of the I'm
tied States before it encountered the
more simple wireless conditions which
exist when sending over large bodies
of water. For the purpose of this
test the sending was done from a
wireless station at Arlington, just out
side of Washington. The receiving
was done on small wireless station
specially erected for the purpose by
the engineers of the Bell Company at
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
The results obtained in talking by
wireless telephone from New York
and Washington to San Francisco and
Hawaii, were a elimination of long
and very important investigations
and discoveries which have been
made by engineers of the Bell Tele-
phone System. These Investigations
have extended over a considerable
period. During the early spring of
this year, as a result of the work al
ready done, the engineers of the tele-
phone company talked over distance
of about $50 miles, using for the pur-
pose 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 con-
| cluslVely demonstrated the correct
ness of their work and it's possibilities
| that steps were Immediately taken to
| involved in transatlantic telephony,
and. indeed, even looking to trans-Pa-
cific telephony. What the results Of
these further tests have been is shown
by the talks to San Francisco and Ha-
| wall.
Another interesting feature of the
tests was the connecting of the WIRE
less telephone apparatus with wire
telephone line. Mr.. Vail in his talk
used wire from New York to Wash
ington. At Washington, by special
means invented and developed by the
engineers of the Bell Company, the
wires were connected to SPECIAL wire.
less apparatus where the message
went wirelessly to it's destination.
The Bell Telephone officials believe
that wireless telephony has an impor-
tant place in the general scheme of
communication. They expect that it
will form a most important adjunct
and extension to their existing means
Of communication, simplifying and
supplementing but not substituting
the wire service. It will enable com.
munication with moving trains, ships
at sea, and other places where it is
impractical to extend wires. Tele.
phone officials say that wireless tele.
phony can never take the place OF
wire systems because wireless tele
phone systems are subject to serious
interference from numerous cOndi.
lions, atmospheric and others, and
that the fact that anyone suitably
equipped could listen in on a wireless
telephone talk would be serious linl-
itatiOn to it's use.