New Britain herald., 1927-01-07

with building towers the navy grant, ed permission to use the towers at Arlington, and from this point ex- periments were made with France, San Diego. San Francisco. the Isth- mus of Panama and Hawaii.
 Started In 1915.
 Starting on the Fourth of July, 1915. when there were no results, the experiments were continued to September. when an official of the company In New York talked to an- other in San Francisco over the ra- dio. and received an answer back over the wire.
 First Attempt Failed.
 The first attempt to talk across the Atlantic failed. But in October, when the static-called "atmos- pherics" in England-disappeared, the company succeeded for the first time in transmitting the human voice across the Atlantic.
 Interrupted by the World War the experiments were resumed after ward, and in January. 1923, using the tower of the Radio Corporation of America, four officials of the A. T. & T. Company talked one night to a group in London at predeter- mined hour.
 The British had no apparatus with which to talk back, but re- sponded by cablegrams announcing success for the one-way communl- cation.
 The first two-way conversation oc- curred March T, 1926, between the telephone office in New York and inc telephone office in London, ex- actly 50 years after the date on the Bell telephone.
 Speaking at a meeting four days later in Boston, J. J. Carty, vice president of the telephone company, told the Boston Chamber of Con- merce, that the day was coming when the descendants of these Bos- ton merchants can talk to all parts of the world where in the old days their sailing ships went"
 "We have long way to go, how ever," he added, before telephony on a practical commercial scale to England and the rest of the world will be accomplished
 At that time static was the great hindrance. and the improvement of transmitters, generators, and receiv- ing apparatus has, for years, been the occupation of hundreds of tech- nical experts, one of whose latest devices has been the perfection of means for shooting the radio waves through static with as little inter- ference as possible.
 New York Leads.
 Today New York is far ahead of England, in the greater number of technical engineers here dealing with the problems of communica- ton, company officials say. Here they point to both the long meter hook-up and the short-wave emer- gency airline, which is an emer- gency airline ahead of London.
 Here, too, judging from the num- bers of persons who desired to talk to London, for one reason or an- other, on the first day, there are many more persons willing to pay s25 a minute for the privilege, with a three-minute minimum required.
 It is understood, also, that out lying points throughout the United States will be in communication with London long before equivalent pro- gress has been noted outside of Lon don.
 In Chicago alone, it is pointed out, there are more phones than in the whole British Isles, and each one here is a potential link with the is- lands any time the New York office connects the transcontinental caller with the transatlantic commercial service.
 London Statement
 London, Jan. P) - Long and preparations led to the success of the transatlantic radio ohone commercial service of which opened today. a British post office official told the Daily Mail.
 "1t is onl. fair to state that our American friends played a very great part in making the new service possible" he added. "They began years before we be- came actively interested and their efforts have been an inspiration to IS all along"
 Calls sufficient to occupy the serv- ce for at least two days were book 9d prior to the opening.
 Ever since the transatlantic tele- ohoning experiments have been perfection, radio operators on ships having powerful sets. have spent their odd hours listening to he words floating between New York and London, it was learned to-