LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONING.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1876, 27 February 1880, Page 3

LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONING.

An inf cresting trial was made, says the "Scientific American," with Bell telephones, December26th, between Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Indiana, a distance ot 108 miles. The wires of the American Union Telegraph Company were used, and the experiment proved conclusively the utility of Bell telephones for distances 'within 100 miles. Conversation between the exchange offices of the two cities was maintained throughout the day. A circle of 100 miles radius, with New York as a centre, includes all the western part of Connecticut as far as New Haven, with its numerous large and growing towns and cities: the Hudson Biver cities as far as Hudson, all the cities and towns of New Jersey; Wilmington in Delaware ; and Philadelphia, Beading, Eaeton, Scranton, and other large places in Pennsylvania. A slight addition to the radius, still without) much exceeding the distance between Dayton and Indianapolis, includes Hartford on the northeast and Baltimore on the south-west. All these great centres of population and trade are thus already within possible telephonic reach of New York ; and it is quite within the limits of possibility that the end of the current year may see business men in this city deal directly, by word of mouth, with customers scattered over all this wide reach of oountry.