The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-11-28
TELEGRApHIyG WITHOUT WIRES.
The Wonderful Things that Professor
LOOMS. Of Washington, Is Doing.

The Washington correspondent of 1.-THE
Hartford Times sends the following to
his paper: In these days Of telephone
wonders, nothing, if it is within the
range of anything like probability, SUI
prises us. Information has reached
here recently that Professor LOOMS,
who has been in the mountainous re-
gion of West Virginia for some months
conducting Il series of experiments
with his proposed aerial ~telegraphy, has
demonstrated finally that te!egraphing
without wires is practical. His man
ner of operating, which has on previous
occasions been described by corre:-
p~ondents, has Leen endorsed 10y mary
scientists. 1t consists of running a
wire up TO n certain altitude reaching
a particular current of electricity,
which, according to Professor Loomis,
can be found at various heights. At
any distance away, this same current
can be reached by a similar wire, and
communication can be had immediate
~. The apparatus necessary to bring
about this wonder is very simple and
inexpensive. 1t has been fully ascer-
tanned that Geographic communication
does not take place over or through Tie
wires, but through the ground. This
same communications continues when
these electric currents supplied by ma
cure are used. Professor LOOMS has,
as said before, telegraphed to parties
eleven miles distant by merely sending
up a kite at each end of the distance a
certain height, attached to which in
place of the ordinary string was the fine
copper wire. When both kites, though
eleven miles distant from each other,
touched the same current, communica-
tion was had between them both, and
messages We're sent from one end to the
other by means of the ordinary Morse
instrument in connection with the in
strument invented 10y Professor Loomis.
This shows that the theory on which
he had worked for many years was the
correct one, and that 10y the proper
means. such as stationary wires az
ranged from natural or artificial emf
nences, could be operated successfully
at all times. 1t is true that aerial tele-
graphy may not be much of a certainty
during violent storms or electric show
ers, but it will not meet with more oil
structions than the ordinary wire tel
e~graphing, which is not ut all sure
during the periods spoken of. 1t will
be a long time before aerial telegraph
ing can be carried on between places
which are but Il short distance apart, IT.,
indeed, ii ever will. In such cases the
wires will continue to be used, though
though for long distances, such rs for
%telegraphing from one side of the ocean
to the other, the areal telegraph will
takes its place entirely. Professor
LOOMS has u scheme now on foot for a
series of experiments from a point on
one of the highest peaks on the Alps,
in Switzerland, to II similarly situated
place in the Rocky Mountains on this
side of the world. If this succeeds, of
course, his invention will rank in i'm
portance with that of the electric tele-
graph itself, and be even greater than
that of the telephone. All the money
necessary to carry on the experiments
has already been promised, and it will
not be many years, if it turns out to be
one of the lost arts, rs, having played
its part, it will be laid aside. The cost