The New York herald., 1922-03-06
TALKS FROM Phone
in HIS HOME TO ship.
$40 MILES ON OCEAN
H. B. Thayer at New Canaan
Plainly Hears Capt. Rind
of the America.
MARKS A NEW EPOCH
Voice Travels to Deal Beach
by Land Wire, Then
Goes by Radio.
INTERFERENCE IS SLIGHT
About 100000 Amateur Wire
less Telephones Hear
Conversation.
INTERFERENCE rs SLIGHT

3. Thayer president of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company, last evening in his home at
New Canaan. Conn. picked up his
telephone.
Hello" he said. I'D like 20 speak
70 Capt. Rind of the America
His voice travelled by ordinary tele-
phone wire down to the Walker Lis
penard building. Of his own company,
- Walker street, up to the Gath floor.
where the test room is situated and
then continued by land telephone down
o a radio transmitting station at Deal
Beach. There it was shot out through
an aerial into the ether and travelled
$40 miles out to sea, down through the
aerial Of the United States liner
America. into the ears of J. #. Far
rirgton. radio engineer of the Western
Electric.
"All right" said Mr.. Harrington. THE
captain is here. I'll put him on
Voice Leaps $40 Miles In Air.
His voice ieape6 the watery gap TO
shore and .mpinged on the aerial Of a
receiving station at Elberon and from
there sped through the Walker Lispe-
nard building up to New Canaan,
Hello, this is Capt. Rind"
Captain. this is Mr.. Thayer of the
telephone company. I'm up in New
Canaan. understand you are three or
four hundred miles at sea-
"Ycs. we were arc miles from Am
brosc light at 80. We expect to dock
to-moirow evening at or s."
What kind OF a trip are YOU hsving?'
Were having a good trip for this
time of the year.
Well. I'm glad to have had the pleas
ure of speaking to you. think IL Is
fine that we can meet and talk this
way"
That, with the usual parting greet
ings. was the conversation that may be
described as epoch making, since In il
were overcome barriers which engineers
have been striving for years to elm
mate 1t means, the engineers in the
test room explained to group OF news
paper men who had Listened in" that
there Is absolutely no reason why any
telephone subscriber from Seattle 10
and talk to a friend ON a ship in the
Atlantic or Pacific ocean. The Amer
!cin Telephone and Telegraph Company.
the Radio Corporation OF America and
other commercial organizations stand
ready To furnish such service as soon as
there is demand for It, :
one or twice during the tests. which
lasted more than an hour, some wireless
operator sending by spark instead OF by
The more modern vacuum tube. would butt
in on the 420 meter wave length out from
shore or the $50 meter in from shore,
Dut aside from those brief moments the
voices we're as clear and loud ass by Or
binary telephone. sometimes a little bet
ter.
TELLS OF Passengers on Ship.
Capt. Rind, in another conversation.
this time with Major Ross Whytock OF
the United States lines, said that his
ship carried a line crowd OF passengers
Tor this time Of the year.
I'VE have 175 first. 24i second and
2iT third class passengers on board" he
said. Last night we had very sue
cessful ma squerade ball. The passen-
gers know this test Is going on and send
their regards to friends ashore.
When do you expect to be alongside?''
Major Whytock asked.
Il figure we should reach the tight
ship by tomorrow afternoon. That
means Quarantine at 5 80 and the dock
By or 3. The sea Is picking up bit
Just now and the glass indicates that we
arc In for a blow tonight however, so
we may not make II. II may be that we
viii not dock until Tuesday morning. but
lust now 1 think IL will be tomorrow
night"
Major Whytock also greeted Mr.. Pc
try. friend. and became greatly ex-
: cited when Pete" said
Hello. Ross. I've got some stuff
here IL you want H."
.stuH'' Not Kind Expected.
ii developed, however, that the stun
was news. Petry explained in a talk
that he had some more news. which he
would bring in with him. Mrs. Petry
also got on the ether. as did j. IT. Byrnes
of the General Electric Company and
y. VI Amy of the Radio Corporation.
rhe two engineers. with Mr.. Harrington.
have been making tests on board the
ship, as Petry explained. and have
talked with Deal from q distance of
l.700 miles They also had radio COM
yersations with the George Washington
Of the United States Lines as that ship,
goo miles below the horizon. steamed
toward the Mediterranean.
One Of the most interesting parts OF
.he experiment was the fact that prob
ably 100000 amateur radio telephone
stations In the middle Atlantic and New
England States we're listening to the
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