Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-01
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WIRELESS FROM
MAINLAND HERE



IinslsilipE his apparatus and making
preliminary tests. while the American
lTeIephore e telegram Company ek-
lperts ID Washington we're working on
the tests, also Largely the problem
was one az observing atmoepherit con-
Gitiohs and getting the right amount
| or power hehind the messages that
IWt1I1 soon come shooting across
many thousand miles. Gradually the
power At the sending station was in
creased and the receiving apparatus
adjusted ID consonance.
/ The Human Ncics Across the ocean.
On the evening ol $eIIeln11f 29
remember that date. IT'S historic be.
tween and O'Clock. Espenschled
listening 81 at his little station
heard for the first time q the history
Of the world the human voice sent
across the ocean
The words were not entirely intel
lIgilI6. but he knew then that the ex.1
pertinent would succeed From that
tine p1tn r., niSht there was cur.
And then last night came the eo1clus
i've tests.
4 srdap 5. my 6IIIeets hsslsd
81 Admiral B6dsh. gathered tf6tnd
tl's ppsts.l's est r'Eht aI.q Listened
q <he tones q k2ice myster'oqsly
flung from Arlington
Are yo1 ali NeII!s Vas tie flrst
fDI1el senf64ce that colne 4 was
Repeated three times. Then the Qpe-
Iafef ct Arlington began 10 count
IRON n6 g 20 The n6ube[6 we're
heard clearly ii perfect sequence
Then Goodnight that's all, Ii6 aid
and ne test had become = conclusive
lie success q tke wireless .ele
phone had been preceded 81 WIRELESS
s1[6111e we're put Qp messe1s - fr9ia
t.fm41.nl 1ySle,n pos6ikI1.
Mr. Esnenschied Is as ret unable to
say anything regarding the inslalIa-
tioh q permanent wireless teIe.
phone system between the mainland
ana Honolulu. But II Is now known
to b possible.
These tests win be continued for
4 short t'ne for experimental purpose.
then We shall quit. he said when ask
ed today regarding the lnfure The
tests were to demonstrate the pqssi.
1'IiIie1 Of wireless telephone. But as
70 the future we'll while The strides
of wireless and wireless telephony are /
increasing Il may be stated that II /
no way Win wireless telephony tcD|1te /
the present wire 6ySlem The wire /
1I6f6In. such a. .VoII have giving e.
t6|'ont service on, Oahu viii remain. ]
The wireless will supplements and l04- /
(ef L DT extending The entire field /
ol tie feIephone The wireless VIII /
make telephony possible over places /
and under conditions where the wire /
telephone would be either impossible /
wireless win be ihl1'nat'e over greet
stretches Of Natef o. through sparse
" settled, difficult land roEionE
Navy c6ottfskcs '..I<|'l
The cooperation al. courtesy n the
navy department both here Al. d .
washington. are much ar6Ict' " By T
lie experts Of the AmefI< T6Ie.
phone I6'61I6bI Company The
naval radio station st arlington A.
|oFf61 facilities for the tests 1I|
|nEfQn the experts are not Q'1| the
entire plant but simply tie 1'IeI1||
applying their own apparatus l0r 1e'
fspenschisd m6destls dIst'1|,f
special credit for the
)nt certainly !. IS eou1t6'..
worked n Ho16|I|0 On ||.
ant tests for months without "a. .'
.eachi1e the public. He has been '||I
he American Telephone & TeIe| Iapb
Company for FIVE years, before that
le was interested IN wireless .8 AZ +
lmatenr and studied At 3 technical F
IchooI. And he looks upon the con.
q Tie tests with the pride /
# & goo q LEIcan.
..Ism Glad that this fifsi 11fkessful
est across The ocean faf been carried /
ut IN Hawaii faf i has III been |
lone 10 America he remarked To-
treat Strides Msde. il
II is only few months since the
irst wireless 6|e6horing was done
u the experts II bis company. Last
farch they talked between Montahl.
,ong Island, and Wilmington, Della
vare. distance ol about zoo miles
'horlly after the field was extended
lntil 800 miles had been covered
hen there was q successful test from
arlington to the Canal Zone station
lllich ii . way might be termed 0ce
mic wireless telephoning. though part
the distance the messages Travelled
Fefldhd But reaching Hawaii IS the
real thing.
Readers 81 the star-Bulietin win re-
iember how, q few months ago. the
ord read with amazenent that
resident Vail 0f the American Tele
hone b Telegraph Company had
alked with San francisco by wire
sisph0ne thai Mayor Mitchell Of New
ofk and Mayor Rolph Of San Fran
Isco had exchanged messages.
Wei. wireless telephony IN the
lonths from March to October has
JADE q much better record than that.
elieves Nanen Messages Heard.
It VIII interest q great many peD