WIRELESS TELEPHONE MARVELS

Taihape Daily Times, 26 February 1918, Page 3

WIRELESS TELEPHONE MARVELS

'Astonishing disclosures of the recent achievements of wireless telephony were made by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, in a speech to the Canadian Club at St. Catharine's, Ontario. "Ir the telephone has reached its extreme limits, what next?" said Dr. Bell. "I cannot say what next, but 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 the river from Washington, talked with a man on the Eiffel Tower in Paris by a telephone without wires. But that is not all. A man in Honolulu heard the conversation! From Honolulu to the Eiffel Tower is 6000 miles, one-third of the circumference of the globe. Does not this mean," he added, "that we can talk from any part of the world to any other and without wire?" Dr. Bell, in detaling the development of his telephone, stated that a few days previously he had whispered a message from New York to Chicago—a distance of about 900 miles —and. had received a whispered reply*