TELEPHONE MARVEL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1921, Page 8

TELEPHONE MARVEL.

TALKING OVER 6000 MILES.

London, April 11

Describing his personal experiences with a wonderful new telephone repeating apparatus, the Washington correspondent of the Times telegraphs that a new era in the history of' the telephone has opened. “From an armchair in the Pan-Ameri-can buildings here.” he says, “I exchanged greetings with a friend in Havana, and also with the wireless operator at Catalina Island, near Los Angeles. “Moreover, I heard, as plainly as though all of us were seated in one room., Havana talking to Catalina Island. and the latter replying. These voices passed over 11 miles of deep-sea cable and 5500 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. ' “This system should prove a potent

agency in unifying the English-speaking people. If the deep-sea cables and 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 men in London will holcl daily conversations with business men in the Dominions and India.”