Long Distance Wireless Telephone by L. L. C.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 14, 1915

Long Distance Wireless Telephone

By L. L. C.

One of the greatest achievements of the human intellect was brought to completion last month. On the evening of September 29, Secretary Daniels announced the successful transmission of wireless telephone messages from the United States Naval Radio Station at Arlington, Va., to the similar station at Mare Island, Cal., a distance of about twenty-five hundred miles. Surely the scriptures foretelling an increase in knowledge, as a sign of the last days, are being fulfilled right before our eyes; and we are led to exclaim, with Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, in the first message sent on the line between Washington and Baltimore, “What hath God wrought!”

Yet the great distance thus covered successfully by the wireless telephone has been almost immediately nearly doubled. It was announced the next day at the offices of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, that, after the transmission of the human voice from Arlington to Mare Island, subsequent experiments had resulted in successful telephone communication between Arlington and the naval radio station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a distance of 4,600 miles. This is greater than the distance from New York to London, Paris, Berlin, or Rome. L. L. C.