New-York tribune., 1901-08-31
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

The tremendous Importance Of long distance COM
munication at sea. especially between warships
which have hitherto been wholly unaware of occur
rences beyond the horizon leads the experts the
Intelligence Office to devote much space to the re-
markabIe progress of telegraphy through space
without wires.
During the early development OF wireless teleg-
raphy IL was soon realized that its use would be
largely for maritime and military purposes The
electrical engineers and experts then proceeded
struments for communication between ships. be-
tween ships and lighthouses and stations on shore.
difficult operation 1t is Of especial interest to
long distance communication has been maintained
over the water its great possibilities for navigating
independence of weather. fog snow. rain or dark
ness. Great progress has been made during the
Tuned and multipIex wireless telegraphy CO. In
creased distance over which messages can be
One OF the great disadvantages for naval ,pur-
be secured, and in the fact that messages could
transmitter within the Held Of the waves Mr..
MarcOni claims to have succeeded in tuning his
tuned transmitters. To prove the success of his
system two messages were sent from st. Cathe-
receivers at Poole were connected to the same air
wire about forty feet in length and each rolled out
that in French the other. While these expert
ments were being carried out. others for the Brit
ism Admiralty were taking place between Ports
ton intersected each other. but interference
confusion of messages resulted
China, arrived on OF the ports the British ad-
miral there sent a wireless message for boarding
usual civities Upon the boarding officers ar
the tw message M had been read on another OCCASION
ths Officers n in he %
ceive message in italian asking as to the position
D5 and its receipt anG the
of the message mentioned above show the i'm
Ali of these ships were supplied with the older form
of wireless apparatus and were unable to preserve
secrecy.
These difficulties are now practically overcome
and the extension of the OF various wireless |
systems amounts exciting race between all |
the navies and the commercial lines. Among the |
governments which establishing systems or |
contracting for apparatus for naval Chilli |
Denmark. England. France. Russia Germany,
Italy Japan. Spain and Sweden.
PoPULARIZING THE NAVY
Perhaps the most important chapter In the vol |
ume is that describing the navy leagues of Great
Britain. Germany. France. Italy and Spain. and /
making a plea for similar movement in this /
country:
The influence of navies on the fate Of nations
ton. whatever may be it's military power or its
gation unless it be strong on the sea 70 some. of
course this strength is more important than 10
What the country if it falls behind in the race for
naval supremacy. it falls behind in the race for
This tast is realized By all the grncBBal B Pswsr
the people to the Same idea This task has been
undertaken by various navy leagues, and in one
ern navy league is a comparatively recent institu-
ton though we have no trouble In a;,5 5rasng II il @ to
power after the battle OF Salarnis-her Trafalgar
to rebuild and reorganize the fesf story fun
Of instruction to th9se who read nt WITH oPen EYES
was largely supplied and supported by private con-
baps the rst Organized navy league and
the best example of what navy league can do.