| Show TELEPHONE COMPLETE CIRCUIT FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO FIRST MESSAGE BY INVENTOR line officially opened jan 25 1915 miles mile in length trans tran and nd distinct now new york from tile the fifteenth floor ot of a new york skyscraper in the office ot of theodore N vail president ot of the american telephone liono and telegraph company alexander graham dell bell monday afternoon telephoned to thomas A watson ira in san francisco sending bending 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 various telephone apparatus that all combined made transcontinental telephoning possible john J caray carty chief engineer 0 of tho the boll bell telephone system insisted that the inventor of the telephone lione should have the lionor honor of sending tile the first ocean to ocean message and thus it was that dr dell bell and mr watson were at either end of the tha line monday afternoon in a little boston june 2 1875 it was alexander graham bell who iio spoke and thomas A watson who heard the first message ever sent by telephone come here Wat Fon I 1 want you were the first words ever convoyed conveyed over a wire that wire was only sixty feet in length the line used monday la Is miles long A bit of sentiment that entered into tile celebration of the opening of the transcontinental line was that tile the sixty feet of wire used in the first N A K copyright by harris ewing ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL talk lit in boston was spliced into tho the line monday thirty feet ot of it at new york and thirty feet at san francisco ever since the telephone was discovered COY ered america the land of 0 its birth lias has kept the lead using moro more telephones than all the rest of tho the world more than twenty one million miles of 0 wire lit in this athla country now unite nine million telephones in cities towns arid and villages all the rest of the world lias has less than five million telephones in 1876 the longest telephone line I 1 tile tho world was from boston to cambridge two miles in issa it wits extended to new york miles chicago and new york were connected in n 1895 and in 1911 now new york could s say y hello to denver lit in the forty years since tho the telephone was invented nearly a hundred types of transmitters and numerous repeating instruments and other devices been used and discarded for something letter bolter hut but it Is asserted that no single new discovery las bus been responsible for this latest and greatest in the telephone art in the two circuits of the brancon thi line there ore are approximately six million of copper wire or about two hundred carloads this wire nire Is stretched it poles which if they were loaded on railroad cars would make biake twenty trains of thirty cars eccli the route of the telephone honn line Is from new york to pittsburgh thence to chicago daan port dim dea Moin cis linen Ll ll denver salt lako lak city and to san francisco francieco it Is tinder understood tood that the rate will ile be about 2103 for a three oliree minnit tak front from now new york to san francisco stationed along tills great stretch of telephone line the lay day it was opened d were repairmen every few miles in the bix colors cn lors in the lie little towns tawni on the prairies pr alrina in the mountains and out on the desert ready to oric aco tile the wires in caso case they aliey were torn down by sleet meet or wind to solder a break or re place an insulator broken by a storm or a mischievous boy like sol sold llen leri on picket daty these repairmen will be kept on constant vigil night and day in rood good weather and in bad for it Is advertised that this line la Is soon to be opened to tho the public for constant use |
