CONFERENCE BY RADIO

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 41, 27 April 1928, Page 16

CONFERENCE BY RADIO

A GREAT SUCCESS

We were recently told by cable of the successful holding of a joint conference simultaneously in New York and London on the part of the American and British Institutes of Hlectrical Engineers. The following from an American journal gives a fuller account of the proceedings :- With the Atlantic Ocean between them, the American and British Institutes of Blectrical Engineers have just held a joint session in which radio telephone bridged the gap as completely as if the meetings had been in the same room. I‘or the first time in history, a presiding officer on a London_ platform introduced a speaker in New York, and both audiences, physically separated by more than 3000 miles, heard the entire proceedings simultancously. So successful was the demonstration that the New York engincers probably heard more of what went on in London than id the British group. ‘Through the microphone there were audible the whispered conversations which passed between officers of the British institute while the speaking was in progress. So_ accurate and rapid was the transmission that the New York group became aware of the applause in London for one of the American speeches even before those in the lecturer’s presence here began to clap their hands at the -conclusion of his talk. The arrangement to "suppress the Atlantic’? was made by the British Post Office and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The demonstration formed one of the features of the mid-winter convention of the American Institute of Hlectrical Ingineers in the engineering auditorium here and the session of the British group on the Victoria embankment in London. A resolution, citing the significance otf the ‘new international assembly" of the engineering groups, was introduced

in New York by Brigadier-General John J. Carty, vice-president of the American ‘Telephone and Telegraph Company. It was seconded almost immediately in London by Sir Oliver Lodge. It was passed by acclamation in both sections of the meeting. "This meeting,’ the resolution read, ‘wishes to express its feelings of deep satisfaction that, by the electrical transmission of the spoken word, these two national societies have been brought together in this new form of international assembly, which should prove a powerful agency in the increase of good-willl and understanding among the nations." Bancroft Gherardi, president of the American Institute; Dr. Frank B. Jewett, president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories; Colonel Purves, head of the British Post Office; and Sir Oliver Lodge were among the engineers who spoke to the two gatherings. Archibald Page, president of the British Institute of Engineers, presided.