Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-02-13
THE LATEST ELECTRICAL WON.
DER.

THE LATEST ELECTRICAL WON
DER.
The New York World contains a
interview with Mr.. Edison in whicl
the inventor gives the following in
teresting information regarding hi
new invention. This system wa
brought into it's present shape by Mr.
Edison, but the first patent was taker
out by William Wiley Smith of Ten
nessee, who, with E. I. Gillilan0d, tht
noted New York electrician, 'co-operat
ed with Mr. Edison in the matter
Mr.. Smith conceived the idea of hav,
ing a message pass from a truin to ar
ordinary wire along the route by sim
pie introduction. He told Mr.. Chill
and. Mr.. Gilliland told Mr.. Edison.
Il found" said Mr.. Edison, that q
current of electricity could pass
through the air between two conduc-
tors, but if the communication lasted
longer than a $50, OO0th of a second
the air became polarized, or other
wise changed by the electricity, and
it resisted any further communication.
In other words, the air offered prac-
tically.. no resistance to an electric
current for the $50, OOOth part of a
second. If I could get a wave so
short and sharp that it would pass
through the air between the given
points in that small space of time, the
thing would work. Now, in this
moving a there is a little battery.
When the operator at the table sends
q message, the waves go at the rate of
about 600to a second. The waves on
an ordinary Morse current go about
thirteen to a second. These waves
r sent into.the air from the tin roof
of the car with such suddenness and
sharpness, by means of a simple cleo
tro-magnet, that each Geographic let
ter, consisting of a dot or a dash,
passes to the wires strung on the Egg
nlar telegraph poles all along the
railway inside of the 250,0O0th part of
a second. There, is a pause of about
q t~housandth of a second to let the
air regain its ordinary condition.
Then another letter is pumped
through the air to the wires. Then
another pause and another letter, and
SO on. If you try to push a candle
through a pine board you will break
the candle. If you shoot the candle
out of a gun it will make a hole in the
These letters are darted
through the air SO quickly that the
air molecules don't have time to think
about resisting, as it were. This sys-
tenn will work in all weathers. The
sympathy or induction be-
tween the roof of the car and the
wires is 50 great that the messages
will leap Though the air to or from
the regular wires as far rs $50 feet.
don't use any new wires, but work
on the regular telegraph system. Our
come to the ear of the opera
Tor in musical notes, such as a pro-
100000 for a dash and a
short 90 for a dot. We work just as
and as easily as the ordinary
system"
MIR. Edison said that by this princi-
pie he discovered that ships can tele-
graph to each other through the air
1t q distance Of twenty-five miles. A
small balloon coated with gold foil
Gould carry a thin wire into the air
BOO feet from each ship. The wire
the balloon with electricity.
1t a height of 800 feet the air is so
that the electric current will
oass by induction from one of these
balloons to another twenty-five miles
way. The moment a ship is within
electrical communication of another
he telegraph instrument On board
to sing. So does the instru-
nent on the other ship. The opera
ors on the ships then talk to each
ther. 4 have already experimental I
cross great fields with this system, J,
nd have met with great success" |
dr. Edison said that telegraphing |
rom trains did not disturb the ordi- =
airy Morse messages passing over |
he same wires. In fact the wires I
sed recently were the Baltimore & 7
'hio quadruplex wires, and the oper-
tors at all the stations said that their Q
lessages not interfered with. !
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