The times., 1899-04-19
WIRELESS AMERICA.
Successful and Brilliant Expcri-
ments Made by signal Onicer,.

mentS Made by Signal Omcers
A telegraph message was sent from
Washington to Fort Myer yesterday at the
rate of 100000 words an hour 1t was writ
ten down clearly and automatically at the
receiving end OF the line
When Herr Pollock. in Vienna. the DAY
before. sent over one wire $4,000 words an
hour. the cable carried the news around
the world. and scientific folk were no more
interested than the merest tyro In physics
for II was seen that revolution was meant
to quick means of popular communities
ton. But how much greater the reyolu-
ton when 100000 words are not only sent.
but received and written down In the same
length OF time, and at cost of transmits
sion so low as to bring commercial tele-
graphing within the rate now charged for
letter postage
The test yesterday was in a final demon
stration OF the perfect workings of new
devices which have been developed from
the first crude apparatus. II was the step
ping over the line from experiment into
practicability
While the wireless telegraph experiments
nave been going on under the direction of
General Greelys staff. until a point of sue
cess was reached yesterday between the
war building and the Naval Observatory
that make the next step Fort Myer itself.
Capt. George Owen Squier, Phi D.. former
| instructor in the Department of Electricity
and Mines, United States Artillery School.
and Albert Cushing Crehore, PHI D.. as
sistant Professor of Physics Dartmouth
College. old college chums have been
working at night over strange devices and
when questioned about their labors have
given evasive answers but now the seal Of
secrecy has been broken and the world is
TO know that a new electric era is upon H.
Ine average rapidity OF a good operator
by the Morse system of telegraphy is thirty
words minute. The synchronograph the
| new system. carries 1888 words minute
Anything that can be done to make sin
gle wire carry more than one message at
time, can be applied to che new dis
covery, it is said. and so the unalterable
difference in volume of business is as
thirty to thirtythree hundred. And one
man can handle it with, ease With no need
| Tor excessive perspiration
The theory of the new telegraph is the
theory of wave motion in alternating cleo
| trio currents. This wave motion is in
the form of a nicely-made rail fence II is
synchronous with the revolution Of the
transmitter. which is a dynamo xith
| gear feeding by means of wheel with
teeth on it strip of paper having uniform
perforations in its centre which fit the
teeth OF the wheel. This paper has on
| either side Of the centre perforation round
holes corresponding to dots and dashes
| in the Continental telegraph code. There
are brushes of wire in adjustable brass
holders connected with the armature CT
| the transmitter, which Is broken into
semicircles. The brushes drop through
the round holes on one side for the dots
and is g complete circle for the dashes in
the paper tape and open the circuit.
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makes dash
The receivers are endless steel tapes run
ming over roll OF paper. On the tape are
4 wire points connected with small magnets
on the tapes. which are electric transmit
/ ters These little markers rise and fall as
| the wave is manipulated at the sending
| end.
4 The paper used is chemically prepared
/ and the markers using no ink. bring out
blue lines. broken into dots and dashes,
the dots on one line and the dashes on an
other, but the lines are close together
In sending Rudyard Kiplings White
| Mans Burden" the tape with the dots and
dashes punched on it was pasted together
at the ends and ran through the transmit
ter at rapid rate, in continuous stream
of narrow paper ribbon, while the little
markers on the receiver wrote in the
| Continental code the words of the poet
which are 10 live while the word "expan-
/ sion" Is in the lexicon
! The intention of the inventors OF the
| synchronograph is to apply their invention
to the business OF correspondence carried
! on by mail now, charging scarcely more
than letter postage for sending long
messages by wire. The idea for final
/ application is to have the Contin-
entail code taught in the schools and
1 then the messages carried by the new pro-
cess will be cut off the roll and put in an
! envelope and carried to the man TO whom
| it is directed.
A Morse or Continental code typewriter
| is to be invented and the writing and
| printing of commerce is to be in dots and
| dashes according to Crehore and Squier
The young men who have been working
| SO long in secret have possibility of mil
! lions before them. They have patents in
nineteen countries. Already two great
! companies have negotiated for the use OF
/ the new system. England in which coun-
| try the postal and telegraphic system is in
| harmony under one series of Government
roofs. has experimental over its own lines
| with the synchonograph