Remarkable Demonstrations in Wireless Telephony

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 27, 1916

Remarkable Demonstrations in Wireless Telephony

REMARKABLE demonstrations of recent achievements in the development of long-distance and wireless telephony featured the annual dinner of the National Geographic Society recently held in Washington, D. C. Among the guests of honor were Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, and Theodore N. Vail, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, who met face to face for the first time in thirty years, notwithstanding their mutual interests of a lifetime. The diners heard, by telephone, the breakers rolling against the California coast, and at the same time watched moving pictures of the surf at the same point. Words and music of “The Star Spangled Banner,” picked up from a phonograph by a wireless telephone, and received at the navy’s great Arlington plant, went through the air to a long-distance wire line out of New York, which then brought them to the banquet table.