Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-14
GAVE TELEPHONE TALK TO
 UNITED CONGREGATIONAL MEN

The Brotherhood of the United Con gregatienal church heard an interesting and instructive talk Monday evening at it's November meeting at the Community house by Edward H. Everett of New Haven, chief engineer of the Southern New England Telephone company. MT Everett spoke upon the development of the telephone, and was given rising vote of thanks.
 His talk followed a short business meeting at which President N. A. Gibbs presided turning the latter part of the evening over to Joseph A. French, who was in charge of the entertainment pro gram.
 MT. French introduced MT Everett. who sketched briefly the attempts of man to improve means of communication and transportation as civilization had ad- vanced. In 1888 the invention of the electric telegraph was an immense step forward in means of communication, and this was followed by the telephone, which was first publicly dem6nstrated by Bell at the Centennial exposition in 1876. It was frst looked upon as only a scientific toy, but in January, 1878, the first com nfercfal exchange in the world was open ed in New Haven with 21 subscribers Other exchanges soon followed in east
 
 The immense development of the tele- phone business H shown by some figures | that Mir. Everett gave. In the United States there are over 13 million tele- | phones connected with the Bell system, o1 which nearly g million are Bell owned 1 They have abodt 225, 900 ehnpolyes, there 1 are nearly 54 million exchange conrfec tions daily, and nearly 1-2 million tol line connections. The value of telephone property is more than 1-2 billions Int Bell system consists Of the parent com pany and 26 associated operating com panies and the company, which is thu manufacturing and purchasing plant
 Mir Everett touched upon wireless de velopment in radio telegraphy and radit l telephony. Two experimental radio tele phone tfansmitting stations have beer erected, one at Asbury Park, N. J.. ana the other at Plymouth, Mass, by whicl communication has been made with twt ships with experimental equipment sail | ing to southern ports on the Atlantis coast and in one case with a ship 1.e0t miles distant.
 l During the World war, MT. Everet said, radio teieph6ne was developed t make possible communication betweel two planes or between the plane and tn | ground. What our signal corps did France was indicated when he said the, set 1000 miles of permanent poles, 2S,6o1 miles of wire, 3,O3e miles of wire oI French poles and 10000 miles of wire oa the combat lines About 1,800, eco lon, distance calls were handled and about 4 million local calls. The American stigma service really showed the French wha could be done in telephone construction.
 MT. Everett said he did not conside wireless co1ld' ever replace the wire sys
 tems, but it's use would be as an exten
 sion to the wire system. bridging owe
 strips of desert land or water where was impracticable to handle wires
 would be out of the question to handl by wireless the telephone traffic of tn
 United States of about g billion calls Lyear.
 The problem is for finding room fc } wave lengths in the ether sufficient t . carry the messages. The most spectacr lar development of the future for radi telephony promises to be the possibilit , Isof telephoning by radio directly fros
 points in the United States to points i ] Europe, or oven more distant.
 } MT. Everett also discussed macnir switching, saying that it could not dii . place manual switching, but that it ws valuable adjunct to the telephone sel } vice.
 Deughnnts, coffee and cheese wei r served at the close of the meeting.