Imperial Valley press., 1927-01-07
NEW YORK :
TALKS TO
ENGLAND
Wireless Telephone Used
For Conversation Over
Atlantic Ocean.
OPENS NEW ERA
Service Between Nations
Will Be Rapidly Ex-
tended Is Belief.
BY LYLE G. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK. Jan. New York
talked to London today.
From common telephone high
up in an office building here Walter
S. Clifford. president of the Amer
lean Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. spoke to Sir G. Evelyn Muir
ray, secretary of the British Gen
eral Postoffice, who was sitting in
his office in London.
Without the aid of wires, the
voice of Clifford was carried across
some 2000 miles of the Atlantic and
Murray's voice was carried back in
response.
It marked the beginning of new
means Of communication across the
Atlantic. Where today's inaugur-
alton of trans Atlantic telephone
service may lead none can tell. But
MANY in New York today thought
back to times beyond their own ex-
perience when communication with
Europe was by ships which took
weeks to bring their burdens across
the water: how the trans Atlantic
cable had struggled along in its be
ginnings as an expensive luxury
over which less than a million words
a wear were transmitted.
Upwards of 80 newspaper photo
graphers were present to picture
the New York principals and as
many reporters were there to dcs-
cribe the scene.
Two dozen officers of the com
pany and company engineers were
among the listeners to the inaug-
ural conversation.
Both Sir Evelyn and Clifford had
prepared speeches to be made into
the phone Clifford talked two min
utes, his words going by land line
to Rocky Point, Long Island, \. y,
where they were broadcast on two
wave lengths Of 5000 and % meters
respectively to Wroughton receiving
station in England, where they were
put on land wires to be conveyed
to the general postoffice in Lon
don. near st. Paul's Cathedral.
Murray talked three minutes. His
words went by land line to Rugby
transmitting station, England, and
were broadcast on a 5000 meter
wave length to lGoulton, Maine,
whence land lines brought them to
Broadway.
Immediately after Sir Evelyn and
Clifford completed their converse
tion, public service was inaugurated
with a waiting list of callers in
London and New York, eager to
pay $75 for the first three minutes
and $25 for each minute thereafter.
Clifford swung into his greeting
with oratorical impressiveness,
while his distinguished auditor lis
tened across the Atlantic. He
said:
"Today, as n result of very many
years of research and experimental
of speech between New York and
London. Thus the people of the two
great cities will be brought within
speaking distance. | know that it
is your aim, as it is ours, to extend
this service SO that in the near flu
ture anyone in either of our coun-
tries may talk to anyone in the
other.
"No one can foresee the ultimate
significance of this latest achieve
ment of science and organization. II
will certainly facilitate business, it
will be social convenience and com
fort; and, through the closer bond
it establishes, il will promote bet
ter understanding and strengthen
| the ties of friendship.
The broad oxford accent of Sir
Evelyn came booming through the
discordant static to announce:
"Thc opening of a public tcl"-
phone service across the Atlantic
between London and New York is
n conspicuous milestone on the road
of telephone progress and marks the
beginning of new epoch i'll the
development of communication be
/ tween our two countries.