Photograph by Harris & Ewing 



THE ARLINGTON' WIRELESS STATION 



It was from these towers that the human voice was heard nearly half way around the 

 earth, when Mr. Espenschied, in Honolulu, overheard Arlington talking to Mr. Shreeve, in 

 Paris (see pages 303 and 314). 



When a wireless telephone turns loose 

 a word into space, it does not travel 

 through a lane to the point of destina- 

 tion ; rather it spreads itself north, south, 

 east, west, and literally fills the air with 

 sound ; so that we might, instead of 

 "Those who have ears, let them hear," 

 now say, ''Those who have wireless tele- 

 phones, let them hear." That is why 

 Honolulu was ahle to eavesdrop on a 

 conversation between Arlington and 

 Paris. Dr. Bell has surely brought the 

 eavesdroppers into their own when he 

 has made it possible for them to hear in 

 Honolulu what Washington says to Paris. 



The first of these demonstrations was 



the talking over a circuit made up of two 

 sections of wire and one of wireless. 

 The banquet-room was connected by wire 

 with Arlington wireless station. There 

 the messages were transferred to the air. 

 At Xew York they were picked up again 

 by the wires and brought back to the ban- 

 quet-hall. 



And as people at the far ends of the 

 hall held their receivers to one ear and 

 listened to Mr. Cart}- and Secretary Lane 

 talk into their telephones, the sound in 

 the receiver seemed the voice, and the 

 sound in the air the echo, so rapidly were 

 the words conveyed on their 450-mile 

 circuit. 



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