|Be/Z Called Photophone For Pembroke Bell Tower f His Patron To Give m * 'GreatestInvention' Robert ancestor of the By C. Radcllffe lightwave communica¬ relaying sounds, color television the transmitter in a National News Service tions. Far ahead of its pictures, and statistics to the vacant lot Geographic time, Bell's sports nearly 261 feet away and success¬ If had to wait for the world. $10,000 Matched photophone fully sent an interrupted tone to a It invention - Heart of a happened here in bright winter of laser, ultra trans¬ typical lightwave rear window of the L Street lab. A donor who is a - wishes to remain the sunshine 100 years ago, and parent glass fibers, and much of system half inch cable of up to Bell said says Chancellor. Alexander Graham Bell called modern electronics to 144 strands of threadlike it sounded loud and anonymous has pledged to give A demonstration set it become glass clear, "like a S10.000 toward of the his greatest invention. practical. fibers that can convey almost deep-toned organ the Bell Tower carillons is currently being used in Tne 50,000 communications. pipe." project at Pembroke State Univer¬ one of the telephone, right? separate sity if alumni and friends of PSU high-rise dormitories on Wrong. The photophone, Bell's Relayed the Olympic* The photophone was already a Organ Pipe Tone wiil campus, but it is only a partial set. method of human germ in Bell's mind when he talked Two match that amount, it has been The present demonstration sending speech Lightwave communications help¬ days later, April 1. they announced by Chancellor Paul R. set of ^over a beam of light. ed report events of the Winter to members of the Royal Society in tried a voice transmission. Re¬ Givens. carillons has only a couple of The is the at Lake London on May 17, 1878, about a the transmitter The full set will photophone spiritual Olympics Placid, N.Y., mounting in the PSU now has in hand S20.000 speakers. have newly discovered property of the vacant lot. they took aim into the toward eight speakers--and 12 tapes of element selenium. lab's closed window. the construction of the music to start with. "If you insert selenium in the Tainter 70-foot bell tower costing $40,000 commanded "Halloo, which will be erected in the mall When the tower is completed and ; telephone battery and throw light halloo, halloo. ..come to the the carillons installed, the tower area of the near _ it, windw!" campus the ' upon you change its resistance and the overjoyed Bell-as University quadrangle. will include not only a sound system on and vary the strength of the current he recalled for some Cornell for the bells and chimes but also be ccenl" have sent to you the telephone, so students a few years The carillon bells and chimes equipped with four clocks that can later-grabbed facing in you hear a shadow." his hat and "waved with vigor, and portion of the facility are already each direction on It will It was an idea with an for. campus. just then, but two enthusiasm which comes to paid also be equipped with a powerful years later Bell and co-inventor a man not often in a lifetime." intercom Sumner Therefore, if alumni and friends system for public address Tainter, a instru¬ With the . young primitive photophone. can donate SI0.000 to match the announcements. This will provide a ment maker from Watertown, only some words and phrases came whole new dimension of communi¬ gricullure Mass., had done it. Bell wrote anonymous donor's S10.000, con¬ cation on in through clearly. After one test Bell struction can campus. BY JOHN SLEDGE his lab notes: conceded: "It is doubtful whether start on the tower "The of the words which will be a landmark on the The carillons will be N.C. Farm Bureau Federation problem the repro¬ would have been under¬ campus. able to play / duction of speech by the agency of stood had 1 not expected them." automatically a pre-determined light was solved. ..in my laboratory In all. Tainter and Bell tried Chancellor Givens is challenging number of musical selections. It t No. 1325 L more to a will be music The farmer of St., Wash. DC. on than 50 variations of their everyone be part of this effort. which the entire today depends for goods and services to produce Thursday, Feb. 19, 1880." equipment. After their most The tower cannot be erected until Pembroke community can J upon the skills and services of a all of enjoy. number of crops and livestock. These pur¬ successful experiments, on Feb. 19 the money is in, he says. large specialists to assist chases included: Mirror Catches and on March 30 and Donations for this fund drive him in his Sunlight April 1 , Some have been of task of -- they people the should be sent providing food $11.9 In one of the to: Bell Tower > fiber for the nation. billion for farm tractors simplest variations packed the equipment in two sealed opinion that the tower would be Pembroke Fund, ^and Likewise, and other motor vehicles, ma¬ of this test, they took a small tin boxes with of erected State University Foun¬ ^thc businesses which serve agricul¬ mirror plane descriptions the before all of the funds were dation, Inc., chinery, and equipment. thin enough to vibrate to the tests, certified by eyewitnesses. received, but this is not Pembroke, N.C. j ture could not exist without the .. the case, 28372. Gifts are $10.8 billion for fuel, lubri¬ tones of the voice and mounted it so The from the Feb¬ tax deductible. farmer. that it equipment Farm and cants, and maintenance for ma¬ could catch a beam of ruary experiment is the centerpiece city people therefore and motor vehicles of an rely upon each other for chinery used in sunlight. exhibit. The 100th Anni¬ and products the farm business. When words were spoken at the versary of the Photophone, at services that are essential to -- modern $17.5 billion for feed and seed. mirror, it vibrated, throwing the National Geographic Society business and living. . $6.3 billion reflected sunbeam In order to for fertilizer and into vibrations, headquarters in Washington, D.C. highlight this rural- lime. which were focused on a small cell The DANIEL urban exhibit, put together by Bell H.DeVANE the state Farm Bureaurelationship, In addition, the farmer pur¬ of selenium connected to a tele¬ Laboratories, headquartered at organizations throughout chases 33 billion kilowatt hours of phone receiver. When the sun¬ Murray Hill. N.J., also includes the country are sponsoring the electricity; products 360 beam shimmering in with lightwave communications. . intensity second annual Farm-City Festival million containing the voice A Won April 30. pounds of rubber; and 6.5 vibrations, hit the week after the Feb. 19 ? The million tons of steel in the form of selenium cell, its electrical re¬ experiment. Bell wrote to his exchange of ideas and cars and sistance father: information at these various machinery, trucks, build¬ fluctuated, too, causing events ing materials. the telephone to re¬ "1 have heard articulate the three -- earphones speech by groups consumer produce the words. produced by I have heard farmer and business -. So, like sunlight! should serve everyone else, the farmer His close to the a ray of the sun and to create is a consumer -- lips photophone laugh cough * better of and in a understanding very big mouthpiece, Bell would begin with and sing! 1 have been able to hear a the contributions of each to the way. which shadow, and I ? "Hoy! he insisted have even other and to the nation as a hoy! hoy!," perceived whole. was the best to calls. ear the of a The farmer is not often The nationwide farm-city obser¬ way open by passing cloud across thought vance will the fact Bell, Tainter, members of their the sun's disk." of as a "consumer." However, in highlight that families and the household addition to taxes the consumer, the farmer and and Enthusiastic Predictions paying like every- -- else and business are dependent each laboratory staffs all had some¬ Then Bell went on. free of the £>ne buying the same things upon to over the usual caution in * other and cannot indivi¬ thing say photophone, his predictions. * city people buy, farmers spend prosper often variations "Can like $98 billion dually without prosperity in the of "Do you hear Imagination picture what something annually other sectors. me?" the future of this invention is to be! There was laughing, coughing, We may talk by light to any visible and singing -- "Auld Lang Syne" distance without any conducting was a -- / favorite and recitations wire. In warfare the electric such as Hamlet's - - ? "To be or not communications of an army could - to - be" solrtoquy. neither be cut nor tapped.,.The Listeners in these first experi¬ twinkling stars may yet be recog¬ ments were out of earshot from the nized by characteristic sounds, and on a tele¬ storms and COUNTY speaker, relying only sun-spots be detected in phone receiver in another room. the sun." On March In 1897 Many flowers have been cultivated for their medicinal 30, Tainter and Bell an American Bell Tele¬ properties. tried photophone transmission over phone Co. engineer spoke over a a distance. distance of several COMMISSIONER longer They mounted miles with a photophone that used a carbon arc YOUR VOTE AND SUPPORT WILL BE as a light source. But the invention remained impractical for general APPRECIATED use. 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