Show i. i 4 r Progress of Conversation I 5 r ESS than ihan half r century S a the ago year 1875 L to be exact the exact the first words were transmit transmit- transmitted Ii ted ted by telephone This new new- device was wasl frowned 11 pon n by practical people as s being anything but butS S Today on one one sy system tem alone alon has t telephone connections c in m th the United States S SOme me S persons wh who gave little heed to o that test in jn 1875 i So U no doubt ire are now using this me means means ns to talk from New York to San Francisco Si The he telephone today is almost alm st as as' as essential tl l in h. h home as the stove on which the meal is t Jt Booked cooked Certainly it is highly important t forry for I e eiery very ry business man Yet Yet it was ten years years years' after I 5 t the civil war before the first st fi words were t trans trans- s- s A A complete sentence e was transmitted by in i 1876 and the first conversation was r f shortly afterward carried on by overhead line i from Boston to Cambridge a distance of two twp I iles People began to realize that the telephone tr S Cas w as s not the scheme schem of a a. crar crank fc and four ye years rs t later hater j er the Bell telephone was fairly well wen 55 lish shed d with stations in the United States S A conversation was eve even carried on between en Boston Boston Bos- Bos 5 5 S ton and Providence dence a distance of forty five miles 7 I The telephone gradually increased until in the fhe first transcontinental line tipe miles I was vas opened between Boston al and d San Franci Francisco o. o In this year speech was transmitted fop the first F time by radio telephone from Arlington Va I L r nC across ross oss th the continent to San Francisco over the JE P Pacific c c t to the Hawaiian a. a Islan Islands and nd across ros theS the the II s. s I S S S S S S SS o S S. S S S b 1 J w Atlantic to to Paris 1 1921 two years ears ago conversation con was carrie carried on by deep sea c cable Je overa over a distance of nS miles Key miles Key West Fla to Havana Cuba This same year by overhead and underground lines and nd radio telephone conVerSations conversations convers conVerS- were carried on over a distance of ml miles 1 es S S Last year achieved in ins ship ip to shore conversations b between hveen telephones on the S. S S. S America miles at at sea se In the Atlantic and telephones in the New York offices es of the corn com pany The earliest achievement this y year r has been a transoceanic radio telephony from froin the Bell station in New York City to a gr group up of pf if scientists and journalists in New Southgate En- En land It is hard to foretell what the next half century will bring in the development of carry carrying ing on conversations by radio telephony but the fact fac remains that t the e space of fort eight years we have gone from first words transmitted by telephone to conversation carried on between England d ai the United States without even even the I use o of wires 1 i I |