MARVELS OF WIRELESS TELEPHONY
CONVERSATION HEARD OVER 6000 MILES OF.SPACE. Astonishing disclosures of tile recent achievements of wireless telephony (says tho Montreal correspondent of the "Daily 'Express") were made by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, tho inventor of tho in a recent spcech to the Canadian Club at St. Catherine's, Ontario.
"If tlie telephone has reached its extreme 'limits, what next?" said Dr. Bell. "I cannot say what next, hut I can tell you of something that happened in Washington a few weeks ago. The telephone has been applied to wireless, and a man in Arlington, just across tho river from Washington, talked with a man on the Eiffel Tower in Paris by telephone without wires. Rut that is not all. A man in Honolulu heard tho conversation! From Honolulu to the Eiffel Tower is 6000 miles, one-third of tlio circumfcrcnce of the globe.
"Docs this not mean," lie added, "that we nan talk from any part of the world to any other and without wiro?" Dr. Bell, in detailing the development of his telephone, stated that a few days previously ho had whispered a message from New York to Chicago— a distance of about; DOO miles—and had received a whispered reply.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 113, 5 February 1918, Page 6
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