ANOTHER STEP.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18636, 10 March 1926, Page 9

ANOTHER STEP.

WIRELESS TELEPHONY. SPEECH ACROSS ATLANTIC. (BY cable—press association— coptoioht.) (AUSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION,) LONDON, March 8. The demonstration of wireless telephony between London and New York is specially interesting because it is precisely fifty years to-day since Graham Bell applied for the first patent for the telephone in the United Staes. Sixty journalists assisted at the General Post. Office, London, and a similar number in New York, each couple occupying two minutes at the speaker. They went into an ordinary telephone box, and sat down with an ear piece until the operator said "New York on the line." Conversation was then possible with the greatest ease, though such perfect transmission is at present only possible at certain seasons of the j'ear, when atmospherics, do not interfere. It should be*possible in a few months for any subscriber in England to be put in communication with any American, and the demonstration brings ordinary commercial communication between Australia and England appreciably nearer. The aerial used at Rugby was N one j and a quarter miles long, and was supported by five giant each 800 feet, but the receiving aerial' at Wroughton was'seven miles long and only thirty feet high. It is in a straight line during the whole of its run, and points' towards the American station at Rocky Point. The power used was 500 kilowatts, compared with the Daventry Broadcasting Station's power of fifty kilowatts. FIRST NEWS STORY RECEIVED. (biotsb's txuasAits.) NEW YORK, March 7. The first news story ever transmitted across the Atlantic by wireless telephone was received by the Associated Press from London.