On This Day in Telephone History March 5TH 1922, Bell System engineers demonstrated Ship to Shore radiotelephone communications. From New Canaan, CT at President Harry Thayer's home, through a radiotelephone station at Deal Beach, NJ to the S.S. America, 370 miles at sea. The steamship America was equipped with a General Electric Company wireless telephone set. Two separate stations were used on the Jersey Coast, Deal Beach being the transmitting station and Elberon the receiving station. The radio stations’ circuit was operated on a 4-wire principle between 24th floor of the Walker-Lispenard building and the radio stations, and on a 2-wire landline from Walker Street to New Canaan. A telephone repeater hybrid coil and balancing network interfaced the 2 and 4 wire circuits.

On This Day in Telephone History March 5TH 1922

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On This Day in Telephone History March 5TH 1922, Bell System Engineers demonstrated Ship to Shore Radiotelephone.

Radiotelephone communications  demonstrated from New Canaan, CT at President Harry Thayer’s home, through a radiotelephone station at Deal Beach, NJ to the S.S. America, 370 miles at sea. The steamship America was equipped with a General Electric Company wireless telephone set. Two separate stations were used on the Jersey Coast, Deal Beach being the transmitting station and Elberon the receiving station. The radio stations’ circuit was operated on a 4-wire principle between 24th floor of the Walker-Lispenard building and the radio stations, and on a 2-wire landline from Walker Street to New Canaan. A telephone repeater hybrid coil and balancing network interfaced the 2 and 4 wire circuits.