The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-02-11
LONG DISTANCE RADIO
PHONE TALK A SUCCESS
r. F. Gowan Announces Results
OF Experiments With
Improved Phone

any distance Is believed to hav,
been brought within reach by eI
periments conducted by Robert e
Gowen, engineer in charge of tn,
De Forest Radio Company station
on Overton Road, Ossining, the re
suits of which were made public
yesterday Employing "a small
aerial, wave length of only 375
metres and one-third kilowatt OF
power, Mr.. Gowen has talked to
Chicago and other Western cities
in ordinary tones and been heard
without difficulty.
His apparatus is a development
of that used during the war, but
his achievement goes far ahead Of
anything accomplished then. Dur
ing the war conversations were en-.
gagged in between airplanes and the
ground, or between ships a few
miles distant from one another. In
Mr.. Governs experiments, which
have been carried on during the
last thirty days, he has talked over
distance of 900 miles.
I'VE have reached the CONNER
cial development of the wireless
telephone under all conditions,
should say" he stated yesterday,
''for a distance of at least 800 miles
"a service that is identical with
the long distance telephone"
An important phase of the work
is that it has progressed during
great static and atmospheric distur-
bance and interference from other
stations.
Surprised Radio Photographer
"In spite of all this" said Mr..
Gowen, when l picked up the tele
phone transmitting apparatus OF
Ossining and spoke into it, just as
any one might speak into the ordi-
nary telephone, / discovered that
my voice was being distinctly heard,
first of all, in the little town at st.
Mary's. Ohio. The radio amateur
at st. Mary's, it seems, was at that
time picking up the local dots and
dashes, and when he heard this
voice from out OF the air, the send
ing location of which was reported
to be Ossining. N. Y, he was, to
say the least, somewhat startled
He Immediately answered by
sending me telegraph inquiry
which | distinctly heard in my own
receiving apparatus. / then repeat
ed my conversation to him and ask
ed him to confirm the conversation
Immediately by letter. This he did.
"In the same way on other even
ings following this initial per-
Torrance, my wireless telephone
voice it appeared, thrown into the
bottle at Ossining, was Immediately
picked up at Columbia City, Ind,
and afterward by other amateur
stations at Salem, O., Gaffney, S. c.,
Wakefield, Mass, and Chicago. In
each case the local operator, as one
Of them has written me, nearly
out of his chair when in
his ordinary local radio work he
heard a voice from the
of New York.
Experiments Not Heralded
'In no case was any advance in
formatiog given that l was to talk
by wireless, so that those receiving
the message were not on the lookout
for the messages.
Talking in an ordinary tone of
voice, | said, for example: This is
Osslning. am talking at Ossining,
N. Y. If you get this message,
kindly let me know by letter. Ad-
dress your letter to r. F.. Gowen,
N. ""
AS a climax to the experiments,
Mr.. Gowen, last Thursday night, by
with DR.. Amos o.
Squire, prison physician at Sing
Sing, sent the following notice by
telephone of the execution
Of Handy:
Handy, notorious murderer, who
shot two Brooklyn bank employees,
was electrovated here at Sing Sing
prison tonight. DR.. Amos o. /
Squire, prison physician, pronounced !
him dead at 11:13 p. m. Handy
vent to the chair boldly smoking a
cigarette, making few remarks
Just before the current was turned
on. Handy was cold to the end.
r. F. Gowen, Ossining, N. Y Sta
tions receiving these signals please
notify by mail and oblige."
Two elements make possible this
advance in wireless telephony, ac-
cording to Mr.. Gowen. One is n
new type of inodulating circuit. aud
the other new type of glass in the