The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-02-10
TELLS OF WORLD
PHONE SERVICE
Continued From Page 0ne)

mercial radio telephony across the At
lantic ocean was introduced. Since
then extension of transoeeanie service
has been rapid until today commercial
telephone. service practically encircles
the globe, and the human voice has
been sent entirely around the world
experimentally Any London sub
seriber may pick up the receiver Of
his telephone and call 90 per cent of
the world 38,500,000 telephones over
the present system as easily as he
calls a nearby city"
In outlining the major steps Of
the transoceaaic service which have so
widely extended the range of human
conversation, Mr.. Bonar said that when
the first link was established with
Europe on January 7, 1927, only New
York City and its immediate environs
were joined with London, England. At
that time all communication across the
Atlantic was transmitted over one long
radio channel for a limited period of
time each day.
"From a single long wave link, us
able only about five or six hours daily
in 1927, the service across the Allan
tic has grown to four voice paths, two
long and two short wave lengths, in
operation the full "a hours of every
day." he continued.
lon this continent transoceanie ser
vice has been made available to the
telephones of Mexico as we'll as the
United States, Canada, and Cuba.
"On the other side of the Atlantic
practically the whole of Europe is
within the international telephone net
work.
Underneath the English Channel
through submarine cables, transatlan-
tic calls now reach into the land net
works of France, Germany, Switzer-
land, Belgium, the Netherlands, Den
mark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Po-
land, Czecho Slovakio, Austria, Rou-
mani, and other Of the central Euro
pean countries, as we'll as Italy and
Spain.
by means of a second submarine
cable route, these calls have reached
the telephones of parts Of northern
Africa. Calls crossing the Atlantic are
now rebroadcast from London to Cey-
Ion, Java, Sumatra and points in the
Malays and Australia, and to Cape
Town in South Africa.
1.-TWO years ago radio channels were
inaugurated to the Argentine in South
American and since that extended to
Chile, Uruguay and Brazil. At the
same time telephone service was ex-
tended to ships at sea. Now 13 of the
great liners are equipped so passen-
ger may call land telephones while en-
route across the water.
At the end Of last year, radio tele-
phone service was established from the
west coast of The United States across
the Pacific ocean to the Hawaiian Is
lands. Already steps are under way
to span the remainder of the Pacific
and hook up the telephones of Japan
and China.
Mr.. Bonar explained that all trans
oceanic conversations must pass over
two separate pathways-one for each
participants voice. Although over
seas calls travel a more circuitous
route than ordinary land telephone
conversations, both voices of which
are transmitted over single pair of
wires, this fact does not SLOW up the
service, he said.
If 1t We're possible for the human
voice to travel unaided from New
York to London, it would take about
four hours to make the journey one
way. BY telephone it travels with the
speed of light or $4,000 miles per
second. At such speed the voice travels
TO any point on the globe or entirely
around it without noticeable delay"
In addition to ] W. Byers, CONNER
clal manager Of the local exchange,
who is 4 member of the club, other
Bell Telephone men present were L.
NJ. Moore, West Jefferson, D.. j. Eich-
mann, South Charleston; O. NJ. Peters,
arn Walter Brown, of London, and F.
b. Wheaton, of Sedalia. Lyman r.
Baker, county extension agent, also
was guest of the club.