ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1915, Page 12 (Supplement)

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.

WIRELESS TELEPHONE CONVERSE TION. New York, Oct. 21. Another special achieT*ment in wire* less inter-continental communication is announced by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. At 12.55 a.m. to-day—just about three iveeks after the human voice was heard at Honolulu by wireless from Arlington —observers listening at Eiffel Tower in Paris heard an engineer of the company greet them at the Arlington station, 3800 miles away. The Paris observers cabled confirmation of the feat to this country this afternoon, and word was received alio that the Honolulu engineers listening at the same place had heard Arlington say "Hello" to Paris. ALL REPORT SUCCESS. The successful transmission of speech from Arlington to Paris marks the conclusion of a remarkable chapter of experimental work begun last June, when expeditions to test wireless telephony were sent out to Panama, San Diego, Mare Island, California, Honolulu, and Paris. Now all have reported success. Paris was (lie last to be heard from because of the war, though it is held not to bo 8-S difficult to talk across the ocean as to talk from New York to San Francisco.

Facilities were limited in Palis to a few minutes' testing each day. The Ar-lington-to-Paris test succeeded a week ago and was repeated after midnight on Wednesday, but no announcement was made out of courtesy to the French Government. BIG THINGS PROMISED.

Chief-Kngineer John J. Cartv, of th» American Telephone and Te'egraph Company, who supervised each of the experiments, would make no definite predictions as to the commercial availability of the winders telephone, but he expressed his firm belief that though there is a vast amount of work yet to be done, it will be possible in a few years to talk from any telephone in Now York to anvone in Tokio.

Experiments of the last fc*[ months proved the principle, he s:tid, and if Tokio can talk with New York it will be possible for Paris to talk with Hoiiolulu. Engineers now know, added Caitv, that the feat can be done and how to i# it.