Naval Wireless Telephony.

Progress, Volume III, Issue 4, 1 February 1908, Page 125

Naval Wireless Telephony.

The U.S. Navy Department is supplementing wireless telegraphy on warships with wireless telephony. It was hoped that all the battleships which started in December for the Pacific would have been equipped. Telephones were installed on the Connecticut and Virginia, and communications passed between them at a distance of two miles. All those ships which we.c equipped with wireless telegraphy, but not wireless telephony, could distinctly hear through an ordinary telephone receiver what was said in the transmitter aboard another ship. Mr de Forrest, who is o\erseeinp; the installation, when on the Con necticut talked into the transmitter of the wireless telephone, and the operators on the

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