Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — TEST PROVES SUCCESSFUL. [ARTICLE]

TEST PROVES SUCCESSFUL.

Messages May Be Sent In Opposite Directions on One Wire. A novel and successful test was made by which telegraph and telephone messages were transmitted over the same wire at the same time between Chattanooga and Knoxville. The East Tennessee Telephone Company made a contract with the Postal Telegraph Company to use its wires from Chattanooga to Knoxville. Before the contract was closed, however, this test wag made, said to be the first of the kind in the country. Messages were telegraphed from Chattanooga and were accurately received at Knoxville. At the same time a telephone message was being transmitted over the game wire from Knoxville to Chattanooga, the message being accurately received.