REPORTING A SERMON BY TELEPHONE.
A Williamsport telegram of May 30th says:— This morning the church of Rev. Thomas S. Beecher, Elmira, was connected with the “Gazette” and “Bulletin” office, of this city, by telephone, and a portion of his sermon stenographically reported for the paper. The wires of the American Union Telegraph ware used, and the prayer announcement of the hymn, and the text were distinctly heard. Nearly every word of the speaker could be heard in Williamsport during the course of an ordinary sermon, and the music by the organ could be heard as plainly as if it had been only fifty feet away. The church bells in Elmira were also heard in Williamsport, ringing clear and distinct. The only drawback to hearing nearly every word uttered by Mr Beecher was when the cars and engine were passing over the track of the Erie Railway in Elmira and on the Northern Central. This had the effect of deadening the sound ; otherwise the experiment was a success, and demonstrated that the telephone can be used for hearing sermons a hundred miles away. The distance between Williamsport and Elmira is seventy-eight miles.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2021, 16 August 1880, Page 3
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192REPORTING A SERMON BY TELEPHONE. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2021, 16 August 1880, Page 3
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