TELEPHONE MARVEL

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 176, 21 April 1921, Page 5

TELEPHONE MARVEL

TALKING OVER 6000 MILES

London, April 11

Describing his personal experiences with n wonderful new telephone repeating apparatus, the Washington «”•«’- pondent of "The Times telegraph- that a new era in the history of the telephone has opened. "From an armchair in the I aii-A mf 1 1ean buildings here,” he says, exchanged greetings with a triend in Havana, and also wiih the wireless opeiator at Catalina. Island, near Los ApS Moreover, 1 heard, as plainly as though all of us were seated in one room. Havana talking to Catalina Island, and the latter replying. Thtsse voices V a 6; ' over 115 miles of deep-sea cable and miles of land wires, and then by wireless to Catalina, the (automatic repeaters operating instantaneously It was like London telephoning to Calcutta or Calcutta telephoning to Melbourne. "Tliie system should prove n potent agency' in unifying the English-speak-ing peoples. If the deep-sea cables am. the wireless had been eliminated the conversation could have been heard with the same distinctness over 10.000 miles of land wires, weighing 5351 b. to the mile properly equipped. The time is coming quickly when commercial met in London will hold daily conversations with business men in the Dominions n«nd India.”—"The Times. ’*