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join themselves together as we are doing now and interchange their 

 thoughts and ideas by the simple and natural medium of direct speech 

 to a combined audience. It opens up the prospects of results which 

 thrill the imagination, and which are bound to be beneficent, and to 

 conduce, by the way of clearer and mutual understanding, to the good 

 of mankind. On this first occasion it is inevitable that the many 

 professional interests which our two institutions share and which we 

 should dearly like to talk over with each other should be pushed a 

 little into the background, and that we should find ourselves pre- 

 occupied mainly with the wonder of the thing itself. 



The radio art has given us its essential basic principles and the high 

 power amplifying tubes, which over here we call valves. Long 

 distance telephony has contributed a host of new devices which are 

 equally essential. Specialized broadcast has given us the loud speaking 

 receiver. As we sit and talk to each other our speech is launched into 

 the air by the radio transmitting stations at Rugby and at Rocky 

 Point with an electromagnetic wave energy of more than two hundred 

 horsepower, and, I may add, the combined effect of the various re- 

 finements and special devices included in the transmitting and receiving 

 systems is to make the speech efficiency of each unit of this power many 

 thousands of times greater than that of an equivalent amount of power 

 radiated by an ordinary broadcasting station. Many further improve- 

 ments are being studied. 



I should like to express the feelings of great personal pleasure with 

 which I am listening to the voices of my old and valued friends of the 

 American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Mr. Gherardi, Dr. 

 Jewett and General Carty, and to assure them and their colleagues, 

 both on my own behalf and on behalf of the engineering staff of the 

 British Post Office, that the increased opportunities of cooperation 

 with them which the development of the transatlantic telephone 

 system has afforded us, are appreciated in a very high degree. We 

 have to thank them for much helpful counsel in this and in many other 

 matters and we look forward with great pleasure to a continuance of 

 our close association with them on the long road forward, over which 

 we still have to travel together. 



Chairman Page: We are delighted to have with us in New York 

 General John J. Carty, Vice President of the American Telephone and 

 Telegraph Company and Past President of the American Institute of 

 Electrical Engineers. It gives me great pleasure indeed to have this 

 opportunity to congratulate General Carty on the presentation which 

 he received last evening of the John Fritz Medal. This was presented 

 to him by the National Engineers Societies of the United States for 



