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In fact, however, the need of money forced Edison later on to resume his work for the Western Union Telegraph Company, both in telegraphy and telephony. His connection with the telephone is told in another volume of this series.* He invented a carbon transmitter and sold it to the Western Union for one hundred thousand dollars, payable in seventeen annual installments of six thousand dollars.
This system may have cost from twenty to fifty millions, yet it may be hired for one-eighth the cost of renting an automobile. Even in long-distance telephony, the expense of a message dwindles when it is compared with the price of a return railway ticket. A talk from New York to Philadelphia, for instance, costs seventy-five cents, while the railway fare would be four dollars.
Since then, this railroad has become the chief beneficiary of the art of telephony. It has one hundred and seventy-five exchanges, four hundred operators, thirteen thousand telephones, and twenty thousand miles of wire a more ample system than the city of New York had in 1896. To-day the telephone goes to sea in the passenger steamer and the warship.
"And if they can send pictures from Monte Carlo to Paris I can do the same," declared Tom, though his system of photo telephony was different from sending by a telegraph system a reproduction of a picture on a copper plate. Tom's apparatus transmitted the likeness of the living person.
In 1885 he laid out two great squares of insulated wire, a quarter of a mile to the side, and at a distance of a quarter of a mile from each other. Telephonic communication was established between them, and thus he had attained wireless telephony by induction.
The frozen little isle of Iceland has one-quarter as many; and even into Turkey, which was a forbidden land under the regime of the old Sultan, the Young Turks are importing boxes of telephones and coils of copper wire. There is one European country, and only one, which has caught the telephone spirit Sweden. Here telephony had a free swinging start.
Such a plan worked well in the earlier days, when the art of telephony was in the making, and when there was no source of authority on telephonic problems. Barton is the bishop emeritus of the Western Electric to-day; and the big industry is now being run by a group of young hustlers, with H. B. Thayer at the head of the table.
At thirty years of age he became a central figure in the development of the art of telephony. What Carty has done is known by telephone men in all countries; but the story of Carty himself who he is, and why is new. First of all, he is Irish, pure Irish. His father had left Ireland as a boy in 1825.
Numerous important inventions such as the crystal detector, the oscillating valve, the triode valve have been due to private or amateur work. If full opportunities for such non-official research work are not restored, the progress of the art of radio telegraphy and radio telephony will be greatly hindered." Professor W.H. Eccles wrote: "Improvements and invention must be stimulated to the utmost.
And while telephony for the masses is not yet a live question in many countries, sooner or later, in the relentless push of civilization, it must come. Possibly, in that far future of peace and goodwill among nations, when each country does for all the others what it can do best, the United States may be generally recognized as the source of skill and authority on telephony.
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