The Pulaskian., 1915-10-08
HUMAN VOICE IS TRANSMITTED FROM ATLANTIC sEABoARD
 TO HONOLULU.
A DISTANCE OF 4,6OO MILES
Remarkable Demonstration of Ameri- can Telegraph & Telephone Com pany Engineers Regarded as Marvellous Triumph of
 Science.

By the special wireless telephone de- yelopments which have been made by the engineers of the American Tele- graph and Telephone Company and of the Western Electric Company speech was transmitted September 29th from Washington to a wireless station in Honolulu. If anything further was needed to show the wonderful capac- ity of these new discoveries by the triumph coming but few hours after MT. Vail, president of the company, had talked by wireless from Washing ton to MT. Carty, it's chief engineer, located at Mare Island near San Fran cisco, Cal, is conclusive.
 That transatlantic wireless tele- phone communication is assured as soon as the disturbed condition in Europe will permit of tests from this country is obvious when it is remem- bered that all scientists agree on the fact that it is more difficult to send wireless telephone communications across land than across water This
 
 from Washington to Hawaii had to pass over the entire United States-a distance of 2,500 miles-before it en- countered the more simple wireless conditions which exist over large bodies of water
 For the purpose of this test the sending was done from the navy wire less station at Arlington, just outside of Washington, D. c. The message was received by small wireless ap- paratus at the United States naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
 Wireless telephony has been the goal of the American Telephone &. Telegraph Company ever since it sue ceeded in establishing the transconti- mental communication by wire last January. Prior to sending the wire less telephone message to Hawaii, President. Theo. N. Vail, of the Amer ican Telephone & Telegraph Com pany, seated at his desk at 15 Dey street, New York, talked into a Bell telephone instrument and his voice carried by wire to the radio station of the navy department at Arlington, D. C., and from there through the air to the radio station at Mare Island, Cal, where it was heard by John T. Carty, chief engineer of the American Tele- phone & Telegraph Company, and others.
 The following statement was made by MT. Vail after the successful de- monstration of wireless telephony be- tween Washington, D. C., and Hawaii:
 T do not think that I can better express my views insregard to wireless telephony than to quote the telegram which have just sent to Mr Carty, the chief engineer of this company:
 'Carty I want to congratulate you on yesterdays climax in the way of achievements, the greatest in in- ;ercommunication that the world has ever seen.
 ITO you and the wonderful staff created by you. the world owes debt
 ITO throw yocr voice directly wt-i- out the aid of wires from Washington to Hawaii, nearly 5000 miles, great CT distance from New York to Paris, Berlin, Vienna or Petrograd and great CT than that between Seattle and Iokio and Yokohoma, was wonderful, but to send the recognized voice part way over wire and part through the air was still more wonderful and was the demonstration of the chiefest use that will probably attach to the wire less as simplifying and supplementing, not substituting, the wire system and bring into conversational communica- tion ships, islands and places which cannot otherwise be reached. Your work has indeed brought us one long step nearer our "ideal' Universal System"
 As you will see from this, it is clear that wireless will never substi- tute or supplant the wire systems but will greatly amplify them and extend their usefulness. It is humanitarian rather than commercial, but it is use full in that it makes conversation pos sible between places and between places and moving objects, and be- tween moving objects that could not be connected by wire. As with the wireless telegraph, it probably never will be dependable enough except as outlined above
 U. N. BetheIl, Senior Vice-Presi- dent of the A. T. & T. Company, who also talked over. the wireless tele- phone and was present when MT. Vail talked. made the following statement l This romantic incident-th:s talking l by wireless across the continent