The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-09


ventor who has already contributed
several important and successful In
ventions to electrical science, has de-
vised a means of telegraphing without
wires. His invention applies to either
land or sea. Prominent electricians re-
gard 1t as practicable, and the Franklin
institute, of Philadelphia, which Is very
conservative in it's treatment Of all new
ideas, has taken the invention serious
ly and has applauded it's results. Mr..
Kitsee has reduced the old ideas Of long
distance biography by induction to
practical basis The idea has been pat
ented, Mr.. Kitsee having taken his pat
ents out in all large countries of the
world in January, 1885, But since that
time the idea has lain idle, for Kitsee
lacked hacker.
Meanwhile Guglielmo Marconi, the
young Italian experimenter, has gone
to London and has attracted the atten-
ton of the English scientific world by
the wonders he proposes to work with
his new electric wave. Now Kitsee is
backed by a moneyed syndicate, and
it's members are watching the course
of affairs in England to. see whether
Marconi does not run up against the
Kitsee patents when The opens up his
mysterious box. fsat5
The American inventor uses fami-
liar form Of energy and familiar APP
paratus. The waves are sent through
water and air. To send waves through
the air the current used must be OF high
frequency and high potential, an al
ternating current of minute volume
and immense pressure. This may be
done on a dynamo of ordinary form.
THREE CURRENTS USED.
Three currents are used. The pri-
mary current is used only to induce
waves in the secondary, and through
the secondary in the tertiary coil. The
make and break signals are made on
rent is the one by which signals are
sent through air and water. The third
is the one by which the signals are
shown, the faintest return wave caus-
ing g. glow in the vacuum CX-ray)
globe.
One end of the secondary wire is on
the masthead, where great copper
disk is hung, and the other is on a
copper plate fastened to the keel
The course of an induced impulse is
not that of the ordinary electric cur
rent, which always chooses the easiest
path, and would short circuit itself
rather than travel any considerable
distance to another ship. The electric
impulse from keel and masthead are
exerted in every direction, from the
masthead upward and outward, from
the keel downward and outward. Each
pole of the ships instrument is sending
out an inconceivably rapid succession
of electric impulses.
These impulses cannot return to the
ship unless they find another ship
equipped just as the first, and travel
from keel to masthead They will go
to all vessels within their reach, and
that Is only limited by the power put
into them.
Half an ampere is thought best for
sea signaling, and about ten thousand
volts, or six or seven horse power, is
thought necessary for signaling fifty
miles. The primary current is kept
turned on when the instrument Is
sending" and signals are made by the
Morse key and sounded on the second
airy circuit.
The induced waves at every touch Of
the key are dispersed in sky and sea.
They go out over 1.-THE water and
through it, seeking some path through
which their force can, satisfy itself, and
this can only be done through just such
another vessel as the one by which
they have been sent out.
The current in the secondary coil in
duces another of still higher voltage
and smaller volume in the tertiary coil,
which current, as it passes through the
receiving globe, an exhausted tube,
causes a purple spark-the X-ray.
The long and short CLOVIS in the va
cuum globe represent dots and dashes.
1t would not do to have the signals
produced in the globe at the same end
from which they are being sent, for
there would be trouble and confusion
when the second ship began to answer.
It is necessary that the globe in one
ship should respond only to the key in
another. Here is where the second ser
of coils come in. The opposing coils
are wound in a direction opposite to the
active ones. The primary current act
ing on the tertiary balances the effect
produced by the secondary current In
the other coils The globe does not
glow, therefore, unless extra current
reaches the apparatus from another
ship.
the Kitsee apparatus for telegraphing
at sea.
The coil for fifty-mile instrument
should be about four feet long, built In
sections. Vessels would always have
their current on as a signal to other
ships, and an extra globe In the pilot
house would at once give notice of the
presence Of another ship in the fifty
mile field. AS the waves sent through
salt water would Tag somewhat, dots
and dashes would have to be very long.
A speed Of three words minute, how
ever, would not be difficult.
Fog and mist and storm would have
no effect on the working of the system.