“NEW YORK ON LINE”

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12391, 10 March 1926, Page 6

“NEW YORK ON LINE”

TALKS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC REGULAR CQMMUNICAHON SOON PERFECT TRANSMISSION By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Reuter's Telegram, * NEW YORK, March 7. The first news story ever transmitted across the Atlantic by wireless telephone has been received by the Associated Press from London. Tho demonstration of wireless telephony between London and Nefr York is specially interesting, because it is precisely 50 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 in London, and a similar number in New York, each couple occupying two minutes. The speaker went into an ordinary telephone box and sat down with the earpiece until the operator said: “New York on line.” The conversation was then possible with the greatest ease. Though such perfect transmission at present is only possible at certain seasons of the year, when atmospherics do not interfere, it should be possible in a few months for any subscriber in England to bo put in communication with any American subscriber. Tho demonstration brings ordinary commercial communication' between Australia and England appreciably nearer. The aerial used at the Rugby station is one mile and a guarter long, and is supported by five giant masts, each 800 feet high, but the receiving aerial at Wroughton is seven miles long, and only 30 feet higlff It follows 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 50 kilowatts.