Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-11-10

a neighbOrhOOd of nations"
| Colonel Samuel Reber, who is in
charge of the Aerial Signal Service of
the army and an authority on ayia-
ton and communication, and who was
among those who talked across the
continent from the Arlington station,
said afterward:
Engineers Work Several Years.
'The recent successful transcontin-
entail transmission of speech between
Washington and San Francisco marks
an epoch not only in technical achieve
ment but also in the development pol
icy of a great corporation When
IcOnversing some two years ago with J.
j. Carly, the chief engineer of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company, on the economic destiny of
the telephone, he stated one of the
goals sought by his company was the
development. of truly universal teIe-
phone service. With this object in
view his engineering force, which is
one of the most able corps of engin-
GERS and scientists ever gathered to-
gether, had been working for some
time on the problem both from the
standpoint of wire and wireless trans
mission. Transmission of audible
speech to Europe by wireless can be
taken as an assured fact, and it would
have been attempted ere this had con-
ditions on the other side been favor
able. / cannot express my apprecia-
ton of this wonderful achievement in
too high terms, and l heartily congrat-
ulate Mr.. Carly and his corps of able
assistants
Transatlantic Telephony.
In regard to this achievement Ban
croft Gherardi, the engineer of plant
of the American Telephone and Te1e-
graph Company who is one of Mr.. Car
tvs staff, who have been working on
this problem, said that the results OBJ
tanned in talking by wireless telephone
from New York and Washington to
San Francisco and Hawaii, were a
elimination of long and very impor-
tant Investigations and discoveries
which have been made by the engin-
GERS of the Bell system. These inves-
LEGATIONS have extended over a cOnsid-
cradle period. During the early
spring of this year, as a result of the
work already done, the engineers of
the telephone company talked over a
distance of about ESQ miles, using for
the purpose an experimental tower
which they had erected near Montauk
Point, L. l., and a small tower borrow
ed for the purpose from private owners
at Wilmington, Del. Soon after that
they talked over 1000 miles, in this
case using the experimental tower at
Montauk Point and an experimental
tower erected for the purpose at st.
Simon's Island, Ga. The results OF
these tests so conclusiVely demon
strated the correctness of their work
and it's possibilities that steps were
Immediately taken to try distances
comparable with those involved in
transatlantic telephony, and, indeed,
even looking to nspacific telephony.
What the results of these further tests
have been is shown by the talks to
San Francisco and Hawaii.
Another interesting featre of the
tests said Mr.. Gherardi, was that,
in practical way, the ability to con-
meet wireless telephone systems with
wire telephone systems was shown.
You have no doubt noted that Mr.. Vail
in his talk used wire from New York
to Washington At Washington, by
the special means invented and de-
veloped by the engineers of this COM
pany, the wires were connected to our
special wireless apparatus and to the
y ~
sage went wirelessly to it's destina-
ton"
Wire Systems to Remain.
Mr.. Gherardi, when asked what was
the place of wireless telephony in the
general scheme of communication,
stated that he expected that it would
form most important adjunct and ex-
tension to the existing schemes OF
communication. By it's means COM
munication can be established between
points where it is impracticable to ex-'
tend wires For many reasons wire
less telephony can never take the place
of wire systems, but it may be ex-
pected to supplement them in useful
manner. Wireless telephone systems
are subject to serious interference
from numerous conditions, atmospher-
| ic ando TIERS For many uses the
fact that anyone suitably equipped
can listen, in on wireless telephone
talk would be a serious limitation to
it's use-Bell Telephone News.