On This Day in Telephone History October 21ST 1915 First Transatlantic Radiotelephone Transmission "and now, Shreeve, good night". The first trans-Atlantic radiotelephone transmission was accomplished when H. R. Shreeve, at the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, heard the words "... and now, Shreeve, good night" addressed to him by B. B. Webb, through the transmitting station at Arlington. This also was heard at Mare Island and Honolulu. With Shreeve at Paris was A. M. Curtis. R. V. L. Hartley was at Mare Island, and Lloyd Espenschied, at Honolulu - all Bell System engineers.

On This Day in Telephone History October 21ST 1915

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On This Day in Telephone History October 21ST 1915 First Transatlantic Radiotelephone Transmission “and now, Shreeve, good night”. The first trans-Atlantic radiotelephone transmission was accomplished when H. R. Shreeve, at the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, heard the words “… and now, Shreeve, good night” addressed to him by B. B. Webb, through the transmitting station at Arlington. This also was heard at Mare Island and Honolulu. With Shreeve at Paris was A. M. Curtis. R. V. L. Hartley was at Mare Island, and Lloyd Espenschied, at Honolulu – all Bell System engineers.