ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 March 1926, Page 5

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

WIRELESS TELEPHONE USED.

FIRST NEWS STORY SENT. WONDERFUL POSSIBILITIESBY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 9.32 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK, March 7. The first news story ever transmitted across the Atlantic by wireless telephone was received 1 by the Associated Press from London. —Reuter. Received 10.16 a.m. to-day. 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 a telephone in the United States. 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 witli the ear-piece until the operator said “New York is 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 year when the 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 subscriber, and the demonstration brings ordinary commercial eommuication between Australia and England appreciably nearer. The aerial used at Rugby was l-j----miles long, and it was supported by five giant masts, each of 800 ft, but the receiving aerial at Wroughton wag seven miles long and only 30ft high. It was 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, as compared with the Daventry broadcasting station’s power of 50 kilo-watts.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

NEW YORK, March 7.

Through the co-opera,tion, of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the Radio Corporation of America and the British General Post Office, the United Press to-day conducted the first two way trails-Atlantic wireless telephone tests, conversing with various journalists in London. The auditors declared that transmission was perfect and that they were able to hear better than over the ordinary city telephones. Officials believe that commercial wireless telephony is one step nearer.

The tests were conducted at 8.30 a.m. and 12.30 p.m.. New York time. The •subjects of conversation were the recent collapse on YVall .Street and Prohibition.