Show TELEPHONE TRIUMPH COMPLETE CIRCUIT FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO FIRST MESSAGE BY INVENTOR line officially offic lally opened jan 25 1915 34 oo 00 M allt li es 1 in n L length e n ath T transmission r a ns m assi 0 n ci clear e ar and a n d distinct istl n c t new york from the fifteenth floor of a new york skyscraper in the 0 office of theodore N vail pr president eald ent of 0 f the american telephone tole p h 0 n e and an d telegraph T e 1 e company alex alexander a n d e r G graham ra h a m bell monday afternoon telephoned to thomas A watson in san francisco sending the first message ever telephoned across the continent although engineers and scientists have worked for nearly forty years perfecting transmitters receivers lines cables switchboards and ami Tarlo 13 telephone apparatus billat illat all sit combined mado transcontinental tel telephoning e possible john J carty chief engineer of the bell telephone lione system insisted that the inventor of the telephone should have the honor of sending lending the first ocean to ocean message and thus it was that dr bell and mr watson W atson were at either end of tho the line monday afternoon in a little workshop in bo boston s t on juno june 2 1875 1975 it was alexander graham araham bell who spoke and thomas A watson who heard the first message ever sent hy by telephone come coma here watson I 1 want you were the first words ever conveyed over a wire that wire was only sixty feet in length the line used monday Is miles long A lit bit of sentiment that entered into tile the cr celebration of the opening of the transcontinental line was that tile sixty feet of wire used in tho the first VZ I 1 V A A IM 4 awa i copyright by ewing ALEXANDER BELL talk in boston was spliced into the line monday thirty feet of it at nu new w york and thirty feet at san francisco francisc 0 ever byer since the telephone was discovered america the land of its birth has kept the lead using more telephones than all the rest of tile the world more than twenty one million miles of wire in this country now unite nine million telephones it in 70 coo cities towns and villages all the rest of 0 tile the world has less than five million telephones in 1876 the longest telephone phone line in n the world was ivas from boston to cambridge two miles in 1884 it was extended to new york miles chicago and now new york were connected in 1895 and in 1911 new york could say I hello fello to denver in the forty years yeara since the telephone was invented nearly a bun hundred dr types of oc transmitters and nume numerous repeating instruments and other devices have been used and discarded for something better but it la asserted that no single new discovery has been responsible tor for this latest and greatest e t achievement la in the tae telephone art I 1 in the two circuits of bt the transean tran transcontinental seon tiner tin ital line there are approximately six million pounds or of copper wire or about two hund hundred reT carloads this wire Is 13 stretched on an poles which if they were loaded on d cars would make twenty trains ot of thirty cars each the route of the transcontinental I 1 telephone line ts to from new york to pittsburgh thence to chicago daven daren port des dea moines omaha lincoln denver salt lake city and to sa san francisco soo it Is understood that the rate will wih be about 2100 for a three minute talk from new york to san ban francisco stationed along this great stretch of telephone line the day dar it was opened were re repairmen every few rolles miles la in the big centers in the little towns on the prairies la in the mountains and out on the desert ready to splice the wires in easy case they were torn down by sleet or wind to solder ailder a break or replace an insulator broken by a a storm or a boy like sold leri on picket duty these repairmen will tie be kept n constant vigil tight ati and ld day in good weather and in bad tor for it la Is advertised that this una line is soon to ie be opened to the public for coustaut coustant use |