He was a recipient of the Edison Meda As Chief Engineer of American Telephone & Telegraph Company, he was instrumental in the development of the first transcontinental telephone line. Carty was president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers from 1915 to 1916.
Edward Longstreth Medal of the Franklin Institute (1905) Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1915) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Edison Medal (1917) Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute (1916) John Jay Carty Award of the National Academy of Sciences (1932)(inaugural).
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
