Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-08-15
THE WIRELESS PHONE
WILL BE WITHIN THE REACH OF
EVERYBODY.
British Company Will Put Wonderful New
Invention on the Market at Once-Dry Bat.
terry Is Enoush-Extensive Machinery Of the
Marconi System Is Not Necessary in the
New Device.

been formed, with nominal capital
of 1915, 200, which has been privately
subscribed, for the purpose of operat-
ing the Armstrong-Orling system of
wireless telegraphy. The company
will begin operations on large scale
almost Immediately. Two factories
will be erected in England and France
at places which have already been
selected. Everything in connection
with the new scheme down to an illus
trated catalogue and price list is ready.
The Gazette says:
"a perusal of an advance proof Of
the catalogue suggests the possibility
that every one will be enabled within
six months to buy for a moderate
price handy wireless telegraph and
telephone apparatus for private install
lation and use. 1t will be the simplest
matter to connect all the rooms in a
house or to connect a house with
the city. Patents have been taken
out by the Armstrong-Orlin people,
whose system differs in many impor.
tant respects from that of Sig. Mar.
conf.
This development, it is said, is the
outcome OF experiments made at Hugh.
enden in the autumn OF 1901, when
electrical impulses were sent through
the ground without wires and without
the high poles used by Marconi
Among the experiments was one of
the steering gear of torpedo lying at
a distance of 500 yards in a ditch
filled with water. The torpedo was
moved at will to the right or left by
pressing or releasing the lever of a
small transmitter, into which the elec-
trical current of a small battery had
been conducted. In similar manner
an electric lamp raised on high pole
far out in the fields was lighted and
extinguished.
In all cases the electric current was
generated by an ordinary Bunscn ear.
bon and zinc battery and then led
through q transmitter, which was kept
in a case no larger than a good sized
cigar box into the ground. Thence
the impulses speedily travelled to their
destination, where the receiver was
waiting. In both the transmitter and
receiver are embedded the secrets OF
Armstrong; and Orling's inventions.
Last autumn one or two miles seemed
to be the limits of telegraphing or tel
ephoning through the ground. Since
then Armstrong and Orling, with elev-
en- Swedish assistants, have enormously
increased the power of the transmitter
and the sensitiveuess of the receiver.
The Westminster Gazette says it is
informed in their behalf now that they
can telegraph or telephone fully five
miles, and by the time the campany is
in working order they expect to be
prepared to sell an apparatus with
which every one will be able to tele-
graph or telephone anywhere within
at least twenty miles. The ground is
always used as conductor.
All that is needed is to connect the
telephones in q room with the trans.
mitter or receiver by means of short
wire with the nearest gas or water
pipe, which will carry the current to
and from the earth. The walls OF
houses do not form any obstacle.
When telegraphing at greater dis
tance than twenty miles the Arm
strong -Orling company is still forced
to use the air as o conductor OF the
shooting electrical sparks from station
to station. This requires high poles
at both ends, but they claim that
these poles will be only one-tenth the
height of those used by Sig. Marconi
in order to be effective for the same
distance. They also claim that they
are able to send 100 letters in the same
time that it takes Msrconi to send six.
They say their "relays," or an ap-
pliance used for catching or receiving
the electrical impulse shot through the
air from station to station, is far more
sensitive than any ever invented and is
fifty times more sensitive than Thomp-
sons syphon recorder. 1t is so sensi-
tive that dry battery consisting OF a
piece OF zinc OF microscopic size and
and infinitesimal piece of carbon will
work it. In q test with Marconi's
Siemens relay" the latter with eight
volts recorded electrical impulses at
1859 miles. The Armstrong Orling
people claim that their "relay" with
only one volt worked even at 1899
miles.
According to advance proofs of the
price list the charge for transmitters
for sending Morse signals short dis
tances will be $50 and for long dis
tances $75, in addition to a royalty OF
$5 per year. A complete telephone
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