The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-05-06
OCEAN CABLES DOOMED
Fessenden Believes His Aerial
Problem Solved.
DISTANCE NO LONGER A FACTOR

Latest Wizard of the Air Claims All
That IL Required l. Additional
Amount of Energy and That wire
usbed Across Oceans within Five
Years.
"TelegrapAing through space BY
means Of etheric waves is no longer a
theory; it IL now an actuality. and !
hazard nothing in predicting the ulu.
mate abandonment Of the old transat.
lantic cable"
Professor Reginald A. Fessenden, the
new wizard of the air. in talking with
Lieutenants Hudgins and Beecher OF
the naval equipment bureau and Su-
perintendent Tittman and Assistant
wainwright Of the United States coast
md gcodetic survey at his experiment
station on Wiers point, Roanoke is.
land. thus commented on his new wire.
less invention, says a Washington dis.
patch TO the New York journal. Pro.
fesso' Fessenden was referring 10 the
fact At a message Of 127 words from
Chief Moore OF the weather bureau had
been received through space from Cape
Hatteras TO Wier's point, distance Of
6fty-three miles.
Il don't mean" Professor Fessenden
continued, ito appear oyerenthusiastic,
but know what can be done with my
invention. and the possibilities in store
are almost illimitable. In my expert
ment over fifty-three miles ] used
quarter inch spark, which was really
more than was required-a sixteenth
inch flash would have done quite as
well-and I'm order to communicate over
greater distances It is only necessary TO
lengthen the spark and supply addition.
al energy"
"Do you think II will ever be possible
TO utilize your system for communicnt-
ing with points on both sides OF the At.
lanticr one OF the visiting board ask
ed.
"Not only possible, but n practical
certainty. Before the end OF FIVE years
indeed, in probably less tlme-we shall
be able TO transmit messages across the
ocean with more rapidity and precision
than 1t is now or ever can be done by
the old cable method"
Putting the receiver 20 his ear. Pro
fessor Fessenden opened his key-an
ordinary Morse instrument-and an
swered a call. 1--WE got a message for
you from Moore" said the operator at
Hatteras, and then, calling Operator
Dorman, Professor Fessenden. with the
others of the party, stood beside the
operator while he copied message. IL
came through faster than the ordinary
operator sends and much faster than
the common run of commercial opera
tors are able 10 receive. Part of the
message, which was OF a private char
acter. was coded.
How long before you will be able TO
telegraph over greater distancesT was
asked the inventor.
Just as soon as we can get our In
struments in shape" he replied.
"Distance is not factor. II will be
quite as easy to talk over much great.
or space as II is 10 talk over the fifty-
three miles between the Wier's point
station and Cape Hatteras. All that ir
required is additional energy and en-.
larged wave sparks. believe / have
solved the problem OF wireless commu-
nication. and II is certain that this
system has been evolved from the com.
plex 10 the simple.
"The coherer which other wireless
inventors have regarded as essential in
this work is not used by me; instead |
employ an invention OF my own. the
'wave detector,' which is more power.
full and can be worked with more ac.
curacy and with less force and energy
than is necessary In the coherer."
Within a short while, probably with.
in two months. the weather bureau will
erect wireless stations along the mid.
die and north Atlantic coast, where
they will receive wireless meteorolog.
ica messages from ships far out at sea.
The bureau plans TO equip certain yes
sels with Fessenden instruments, and
when properly attained they will be
able 20 communicate with the shore
stations quite as accurately as by wire.
In this manner the weather bureau
hopes to be able TO predict ocean storms
far in advance Of their arrival.
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