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Twa Chapp* Sigoal Tow*ra—17»t
Bj the middle of tbe fifteenth eeS' *nry, when Europe was lifting her head from her long nap, the iD»ention of mov¬ able types came to hapten her awaken¬ ing. 'The art of printing, that great stimulus of tho Renaissance, has growu Bteadily in influence and j)ower as a means of distant communication, until to-day it bears its tidings everywhere, slowly, indeed, but in unlimited scoj>e.
With the new intcre-st in Pcienct which was a part of tho Renaissance, (ialileo'.s inventitiu of the telescope opened tbe way for further development in tranHiiiitting messages by opticaJ signals. Ariiatons, a French physician, attempted a cystem of eignaling by flags and cross bars on poles, tho telcscojio being used in deciph¬ ering it. This wa.H a forerunner of tho flag and arm signal still in u.se. Another French inventor, Gaiithi-y, tried to utJlizo the property of metals to transmit soimil, hy developing a system of metallic tubes. This was not t^uccessful at tho timo, but was the precursor of that fascinator of late-Victorian childhood, tho speakinj,' tube.
The Revolutionary War developed a rude system of signaling in this country. A polo with nothing on tho top meant danger—this sign being used to avoid arousing the suspicion of the enemy. Commonplace objects, like barrels, bask¬ ets, etc., were used to convey less omin¬ ous intelligence.
' Claude Chappe, a French engineer, evolved a dial-system of signaling to be read by a telescope marked by a micro¬ meter. Cross arms were substituted for the dial and would have been immediate¬ ly successful had not Chappm tried to in¬ troduce them in Paris in 1791. I'robably there were already too many now ideas in Paris at that period; the seething cur¬ rents of the Revolution engulfed the new invention and, although the Commune of Paris authorized Chappe to erect stations, the populace feared treachery and, lest the signals be used to communicate with the enemy, burned the stations. Later, however, the inventor's brother was elect¬ ed to the Assembly and, a test being made in which a mes.sage was sent ?>T> kilometers and acknowledged within 11
and space are as nothing. Sound itself is a tortoise beside the swift currents which bear to the Pacific tho voice, the spirit, the emotions, all tho infinite and varying qualities which aro tho man. Tho intensity of New York, tho snow and driving winds outside, are the physical surroundings of the speaker, but ho is for a few miu\ites iu Han Francisco a.H completely a-s if transported thither by Aladdin. Tho Golden (late, the riotous profusion of roses, sunbatheil orch.ini slopes, and tho grandeur of tho moun¬ tains aro not moro really in tho Golden State than is this ni:in who sjieaks from New York. It is not for these that ho has taken tho swift transcontinental trip, b\it the spiritual life, or tho business proldt'iiis of tho West, tho jiersonal busi- uos of his conversational vin-a-vis, what¬ ever tlio object of tho communication, it is completely his. ^__.
Thus has tho ago-iong prolilem found fullest revelation. ("oniniunication has becoino another wonder of tho world. In a fraction of a seconii, personality, that 6ubstauceless material of tho human world, tho motif of civilization, spans >a continent. Tho culniinnting stop, thus far, in the progress of cominunicatiou, tliis achievement stands, looking forward, and not back. The ages havo evolved it; the future alone shall set the limits of its usefulness, shall mold its influence in the onward march of mon.
minute*, Chappc's BTstcra was arlopttid. fnH pnrpoee ot eommnnication In ''lat Carlyle describes with his rharaeteristic they nave admitted but a bulky and un- vividnese "wooden arms with elbow joints satisfyiug resource for rei|)onse. Liuita- jorkingand fugling in the air in the most tion io the expressiim of thought. Icnger rapid mysterious fashinn"—the system or shorter periods of time intervening,/ which most nearly did the work of the -withil a somewhat cumiiersouie means yet unknown telegraph. of interchanging tliougbts, b.u« character-
Flag signaling, used since the Middle '^®<^ ^^'^'^ "^^ °^ ''"¦'°- ^^ °" ^'"^ ^'^ Ages, has developed a comprehensive °-^>' "^^'^^^ ^^°' devi.vod whereby coin- code and is still used in the navies of munication between widely separated the world. Bugling is another method of P""'^-'' ''""''^ a^'"'>nipli*h the same results signaling, still employed in military op- f» personal intercoiirse. Messengers erations and etTeotive where the distance oe&ca-ai, towers of flame and columns of is comparatively sharti' smoke, earner pigeons, rnnte.1 epistles,
^1 1 •«. w _. 1, J • , even telegrams, involved aa intermediary,
• °?! ^f difficulty ot all sound signal- ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ , ^^ ^[
ing thus far has been its short range, and e^ffigient. AU were equaUy powerless to of all optical sipals the necessity for j^ discussion, to permit immediate
clear wither It was left to electncity f^l^rconrse, the interaction of personab- to solve these two great difficultie.s in .he ^. ^^ give-and-take of two miLds and telegraph, whucJi Kill left unreyealed the ^ha^teri And this interaction of per- greater secret of complete distant eom-^j^^jij;^ j, ^1^ ^j^ ^^ ^^^ ^JT^ munieatlon. But electncity with its un- ^.^ „, communication, dr^med powers was m >ta infancy when j^t^eourse over a distanae ha^ tkam- it touched the telegraph to hfe. The f ,^^^ one-half of it-elfTp^to the preatness of lU hidden might was yet ^/"^j ^^^ jg^ wntory. But With the untested. perfection of the telephone, long-diBt*nee
What then, is the great secret of die- «ominunieation came into its own. The tant intercourse, which the ages of civili- telephone provides the perfeet means of aation had l)een powerless to traek to ita distant hnman intereoorse by admitting illusive hiding placet Is not the answer the free interplay of personalities, ahnoet to be found in the nature and purpose of as completely as if no distance inter¬ communication itselft The interchange vened. Since the beginning of time the of ideas is the soul of commonication. struggle has gone on to convey person- Marvelous as is the development of ality, and never has victory been bo eom- means of communication and its relation plete as it is to-day. Never indee^l has
the need of victory been so great, for more and more ia personality coming to be recognized as a great determining fac¬ tor in every pha.^ of life. It is the power of 7>ersonality ebove all which fihapes the individual and the social life to day. in ancient times it may have been enough that "fl.aming straightway Icajit the courier fire from hei»Tht to hoif,dit" to tell that Troy had fallen, but to-day tho report would be patently in- <iiin[)ieto without a personal iuterviow with the victor! "Tt is not so much what is said as the person who says it, that makes an impres¬ sion,'' obsrrviHl a distinquishi'd e.ssay- ^^^
ist of to-dny; and ¦iaijj
if the im]ire.s.sion is to lie made at a distance, tlio tele¬ pbone alone per¬ mits tho fullest play of person¬ ality. Xo interme¬ diary dulls the quick effect; no clumsy buhvark of time alters the to hum.nn progress, it is uot the means impression. The employed that is essential, but the com- personalities are munication itself. At the Tower of lia- together; tho tru- bel tho means of eomiminication were e.st, fullest purpose adequate—organs of speech were in per- of coiiununicatiou feet order and no distance intervened, is fulfilled, but the people were helidess because they The crowning could not make one another understand, triumph of com- The bodily presence of two individuals munication has in one place would, therefore, be worth pome with tliocom- nothing if speech did not permit the in- pletion of t h i f> terplay of their ideas; it is the coming great wonder of together of personalities, not corporeal ages — tho slemler presence, which is essential. The means strand which of intercourse are important simply as means the union, they are used and as they develop and at will, of person- etimulate intercourse. The interchange alitie.s on tne At- of ideas is itself tbe educator of man- lantic and on the kind, and in so far as historic means of Pacific seaboard?*, communication have promoted that, they At a word, a have contributed their great impulse to person in New the increasing fulness of human living. York is in .San But they have failed to accomplish the Francisco. Time
The Vision of the Pioneers
The ideal of a universal system of toleplione cominnnicarinn was .set uji as tho goal for American telrphonc men, as long ago as 1878. In tliat year, Theo¬ dore N. Vail, now prc^sideiit of tho Amer¬ ican Telepiione i Tcle;;iaph Company, urged the agents of the infant telcplioiu! organization to renewed ctforts by [lic. turing before their eyes a "grand tele jilionic systoiri'' that would unite all parts of tho country.
Si.x years afterward iho Bell Com¬ panies wcro federated. '•Two of tho men wdio prepared the article'' of incorpora¬ tion have lived to see p;irt of their andd- timis program of univcr^.il commuiiira- tion come true. These ni'ii are Thmuas B. Doolittle unci Joseph J'. Davis. I'or- tions of tho original doriiment fiirnisli very interesting rca<lint,'. Some of tho early plans seem trifliiiij now, w'hou viewed in the light of wli it has come to jiass, but they were most ambitious at the timo they wcro outline 1.
Tho marching orders of tho Pell Com¬ panies said in pari: "Th'- general rmit'
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The Invisible Plant
.\ Yale jinifossor brniight a class of eiij,MiuTriiig hUidents to New York, the otlier day, cm a tour of ins])ection. They visited several of tho largo electrical plants in the city ami finally marched in on .7. J. Carty, Chief lOngineer of the .¦\trieriiaii Teli'iilioiie ic Telegraph Com-
")Ve have cniiie to see your [•lant, Mr. • arty." said the professor.
"I'm siirry," answered the first of thn tidejiluuio engineers, "but you can't .see it."
There was a strained pauso for a mo i iin'iit aiel tlii'M .Mr. C.arty, s-iniling from bcluiid liis spci-tacles, led the student up \ til a iiiaji of tlio I'liiti'd States over j which lay a maze of lilack lines, slinw | ing the 'PcU system. Ile told them that ' tliiy idiilil tint see tho telephone plant j because there wasn't a man living who i had ever seen it, or ever cmild see it. If tho jirofessor were to takeAhis clq,gs down to tho Battery, said Mr. Carty. I .¦Mid atti>m]it to walk uptown' to Cort- ! laiidt Street, ahuwing them the telephone : lilant in that part of tho cily, ho would
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Co-Ordinatins: the Nation
Telephone development in tho United States has been following tho laws of nature. L)r. Jacques Loeb, who has dis¬ covered many fundamental biological laws, says that a colonj' of niiuute organ¬ isms, placoil in a glass jar, will swim hither aud thither without regard to ono another. But when a small quantity of carbonated water is added to water in tho jar, fhe character of tho activities of tho crustaceans changes at once. All tho members of tho colony crowd instinctive¬ ly toward the side of the. glass froi'u which light comes. From this phenome¬ non, Dr. Loeb derives tho suggestion that just ns tho freedoBi of will of tha crus¬ taceans is abrogated by tho admission of acid to the jar, so the actions of men respond to environing influences.
"Tho United States might well be lik¬ ened to the glass jar of Dr. Loeb's ex¬ periment. The telephone is the acid which has influenced the colony of human beings to change their social and com¬ mercial practices. When tho telephone was invented, tho United States consisted of ;i7 commonwealths loosely held to¬ gether, each filled with energy and enter- *prise, but lacking in organization and efficiency of action.
The arrival of tho telephone changed conditions. The people of tho nation saw a new light. Loo.se ends were gathered up. Tho confederation grew into a com¬ pact iirganix.ition of 48. states instead of 37. New livinc; conditions were created; social and Imsi.iess methods were put on a broader and more efliciont basis, and tho passing of sectionalism and race feuds Wgan. Tho nation became an or- Knuized body as it increased its use of the telephone, and there was no loss of the spirit of self help nnd democracy that was its birthright. The completion of the transcontinental telephone line now brings new light to a united nation and •tarts a new period of growth and devol- onment as the ideal of universal tele- pnoue communication drmws nearer snd Bearer to roolisation. ^
of the lines . . . will be Ivnni a jioint or fail. By the time they got to Cortlandt
points in tho City of .Sfv York, ;Uong Street the plant would have change<l.
all railroads, bridges, higlrvays and othiM- P.<diind (Iiitm meu would lie jmtting now
practicable, suitable ami convenient ways (>arts of the plant up elevator shafts,
or courses, leading thence to the cities of onto oflictt desks, under ttio streets they
Albany, Bo.ston and the intermediate had just left.
cities, towns and places; also from n On the map which Mr. Carty showed
point or j.oints in and through the City the students there was a gap' between
of New York ancl thence through and Denver nnd-San Francisco. Bnt now
across the Hudson and tho Fast Rivers ilie engineers of tho American Teli'iihone
nnd the Bay and Harbor of New York & Telegraph Company have filled tho
to Jersey City, Long Island City and gap and a part of the telephone plant
Brooklyn. reaches without a break 3,400 miles
"And along all railroads, bridges, high- across tho continent. But tho transcon-
wavs and other practicable, suitable nnd tinental line is only part of a plant that
convenient wavs and cours.s tn the cities "* woven into the fiber of tho contineiH.
of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Fvory cross-roads store with tho famil-
Richmond, Charleston. Moldle, and Ni^w '-'"• ''lii" lj»"" ^'pn swinging above its
Orleans; and to all interaie<iiato cities, 'l"<'r )s as much a part of the telephone
towns and pl.ices; and, in like manner I'l""'' ¦•>" *•'" switchboard in the big city
to the cities of Buffali, Pittsburgh, ''^'i},^^^^^;
Cleveland, (lincinnati, Louisville, Mem '
phis, Indianapolis, Chica;,'o, St. Louis, Kansas City, Keokuk, Des Moines, De¬ troit, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha, Cheyenne, Denv. r. Salt Lako City, San Francisco and Portland, and to
Twenty-one million miles of wiro con nect nine million telephones of the Am erican Telephone & Telegraph Company nnd associate<l and connected companies, giving service to 100,000,000 jieoplo. That is the statistician's description of
all intermediate cities, towns ami jilaces the plant to-day. But by to-morrow he . . . for the purpose of connecting with wul be changing his figures again. For each other, one or moro points iu said '.« '•". ''"^''"K V^^,.^ ''^'"ff t'""^' ^""^ City of New York ami in each of the "'^e "'ev.tably implies constant change.
cities, towns and places h.rcinabove spe
cifically or genemlly desi,'^nate<l. '
".And it is further declared aii'l certified that the general route of the lines, in addition to those hereinbefore described or desig¬ nated, will connect one or more •points in each and I'very city, town or jilaee in the State of New York, with oiu> or more points in each and every other city, town or place in said state nnd in e.ich nnil every other of tho l'nite<l States and in Cana da und Mexico; and each and e\ery ono of siiid cities, tewns and places is to be coniiei ted with every other city, towiii or place in said states and couutritis, and also by cable and other appro¬ priate means with the rett ot the known world."
There is the vision of the tele¬ phone pioneers. A large part of it already has come true, and the pos¬ sibility of its full realization is
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