Arizona citizen., 1877-12-14
TELEGRAPHING WITHOUT
 WIRES.
lessor LOOmIs of Washington is Doing.

The Wonderful Things that Pro-
 lessor LOOmIs of Washington is
 Doing.
 It does seem that wonderful dis cOveries of great practical benefit will never cease. Last week we gave our readers Q description of the telephone, is use and success. The telegraph and telephone have many extraordinary qualities. and yet their simplicity is wonderful. When the genius of man first subjected the electric spark to his control and converted it into an invaluable agent for instantaneous com mGnication between remotest points, al most important era in scientific ad- Tancement was attained. Dr. Frank Ii1's experiments of d-awing elecrici- Y from the clouds with a kite, made on June 15, 1752, were regarded with the highest interest by scientific men, and were repeated with various modi- fications throughout Europe. Nearly e century elapsed until the electric fluid was brought into practical use as means of communication. The tele- graph line between Washington and Baltimore, wes the first ever construct ed ana was tested May 27, 1S44, with great success and satisfaction. Ever since that date the science of tele- graphy has made proud strides in ad- vance. In May 1914, the first wire for telegraphing purposes, about thirty miles in length, was put i'll operation, while today it is estimated that at least SOO,C10, miles of wire connect the remotest points of the globe, crossing rivers, lakes, mountains, deserts and even the mighty sea, and over which flash the rise and fall of kings and em- pires, the result of battles, the dis coveries of science, the fluctuations ot finance, and all the great matter of in- terest in the commercial, political and
 social world.
 With all the light that recent experi-
 ment and discovery has thrown upon
 this science il is easy to comprehend
 the operations of the present telegraph system. But now comes Professor
 Loomis of Washington, and propose:
 to reconstruct and economise our pres
 ent system by dispensing entirely witl
 wires as a connecting medium, anC
 substituting in their stead the electric currents in the air, which, according tt Professor Loomis, oan be fourd at va
 rious heights and which he propose 1 to reach by sending up kite or balloon to which is attached Q fine thread-lik
 copper wire. At any distance ava, this same current can be reached by
 similar wire, and communication cal
 be lad immediately.
 3 Professor Loonis has been n tn ' mountainous regions of West Yirgini . for some months, conducting a serie . Of experiments with his proposed eria telegraphy, and has demonstrated ina ly that telegraphing without wires | practical.
 b The Washington correspondent c
 the Hartford Times sends an article c considerable length to his paper O this subject and among other thing ] says: | Professor Loomis has telegraphe ( to parties eleven miles distant by mer, lllv sending up kite, at each end c 1I the distance, a certain height, attache Q to which, in place of the ordinar {. string, was a fine copper wire. Whe I both kites, though eleven miles dlstan I from each other, touched the same cui
 rent, communication was hal betwee
 them both, and messages were sen , from one end to the other by means c :. the ordinary Morse instrument in COT n nectiOn with the instrument invente . by Professor Loomis.
 f IL will be a long time before eria
 telegraphing can be carried on bt
 tween places which gre but shOl Q distance apart, indeed, it eyer will. ] such cases the wires will continue ( be used, though for long distance. n such as for telegraphing from one sid 9 of the ocean to another, the 9rial tei' 9 graph will take its place entirely. PrC
 lessor LOomis has a scheme now O foot for series of experiments from 5 1lpoint on one of the highest peaks O 7 the Alps, in Switzerland, to a sim!laTl | situated place in the Rocky Mountain:
 on this side of the world If this su' U ceeds, of course, his invention wi U rank in importance with that of th ;, electric telegraph itself, and be eve
 greater than that of the telephone. A
 lthe money necessary to carry on th
 lexper1ments has already been promise
 and it will not be many years, if
 lturns out to be success, before Ocea 5 cables will be one of the lost arts, c > having played it's part, it will be lai l. aside. The cost of 9rial telegraph e will not be eyer one cent when th
 other is one thousand dollars.
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