4 SCIENCE: J. J. CARTY 



the first time transmitted across the Atlantic Ocean from Arlington, 

 Virginia, and heard at Paris. 



I like to hope that the further use of the telephone in war may 

 be forever deferred, and to contemplate its future as grand and 

 peaceful. It will transmit speech beyond the vast extent of our 

 own country and ultimately, I believe, to the uttermost ends of the 

 earth, breaking down the barriers to the spoken word and preparing 

 the way for a better understanding among men. It is not distance 

 from one another which has produced differences of language 

 among nations. It is lack of intercommunication. It is the 

 failure of the spoken word to penetrate their boundaries. 



I have faith that we shall some day build up a great world tele- 

 phone system making necessary to all the nations the use of a com- 

 mon language or a common understanding of languages which will 

 join all the peoples of the earth into one brotherhood. I have 

 faith that the time will come, so beautifully described by the poet, 



"Wherein each earth-encircling day shall be 

 A Pentecost of Speech, and men shall hear, 

 Each in his dearest tongue, his neighbor's voice 

 Tho' separate by half the globe." 



With the development of electric lights, and electric power, 

 and electric traction, all of which came after the invention of the 

 telephone, industrial scientific research laboratories were founded 

 by some of the larger electrical manufacturing concerns and these 

 have attained a world-wide reputation. While vast sums are spent 

 annually on industrial research in these laboratories, it can be said 

 with authority that they return to the industries, and through the 

 industries to the public, improvements in the art which taken 

 altogether have a value many times greater than the cost of their 

 development. It cannot be too often asserted that money expended 

 in properly directed industrial scientific research is -sure to bring 

 to the industries most generous returns. In the present state 

 of the world's development, nothing can do more to advance 

 American industries than the adoption by our manufacturers in 

 general of industrial research conducted on scientific principles. 

 Our industries, our manufacturers, our railroads, our public service 

 corporations should all be impressed with the immense savings 

 and advantages which will come to them and to the public from the 

 establishment within their own organizations of departments 

 devoted to development and research. 



So much has already been said and so much remains to be said 



