Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-16
Wireless TeIegraphy.

A new system of transmitting sig
wireless methods is reported from,
England. This is known as the Ar
morli system, and is said to be the in
vention of young Swede by the name
of Orling Experiments carried out on
October II before a number of people
! are said to have proven beyond a
doubt that not only telegraph mes
sages, but telephone messages as well
may be transmitted with fairly salts
factory results by this system over
considerable distances. The waves
may also be made use Ct for steering
torpedoes, which fact was demon
strated on the day il question. The
advantages of this over other wireless
systems arise from the fact that the
earth is used directly as a transmit
| ting medium and no natural obstruc-
tons interfere with the transmission
of the impulses. This system differs
| from the Marconi system inasmuch as
! it requires no coherer or overhead
poles, while its installation, when per-
feet, should be simplicity itself 1t is
certainly the most wonderful electrical
discovery of this new century," &C
cording to an, electrical engineer who
witnessed the recent experiments.
Something similar to the Armorli sys-
TEN was reported a few weeks since
from Pennsylvania. Daniel Draw
baugh, the aged farmer of Eberly's
Mill, who fought Alexander M. Bell for
the telephone patents a score of years
ago, has struck upon a system of wire
less telephony and telegraphy which,
he says, promises to revolutionize the
business. Unlike Marconi, who makes
use of the other currents, Drawbaugh
has formed strong electric currents in
the earth and uses the ground as me-
dunn. His sending apparatus is an in
strument capable of producing a high
number of electrical vibrations This
is attached to the ground by a wire
and copper plate. A similar ground
ing device connects the earth with the
receiving instrument The common
telephone and Geographic instruments
in ordinary use are used for receiving
and sending messages. Mr.. Draw
baugh has successfully used earth cur
rents for message transmission for
half a mile.
From Steam to Electricity.
The conversion of railways from
steam to electricity is proceeding on
two distinct lines, namely, that in
which the train, made up as before of
carriages or trucks. is drawn by To-
connective placed in front, the only diff
ference between it and the existing
locomotive being that the locomotive
is worked by electric motors and not
by steam engines, and the method in
which each carriage of each truck
though this latter has hardly been at
yet-carries it's own electric
motor, supplemented occasionally by a
single carriage without a motor, and
known as trailer The railway man
naturally, says Colliery Guardian,
adopts the locomotive at the head of
his train, because he has always been
head of the train but there are signs
that the Independent unit system, as it
is termed, in which each carriage is
can be made up is gaining in favor.
in which trains of any required length
canb e made up, is gaining in favor
II is claimed that the independent sys-
tenn is more economical, because Of the
smaller amount of work to be done
when a train has to be broken up, or
to be made up.
Beats the Old Canal Mule.
Towing by electricity along the river
banks in England is quite a novel ap-
plication Of electric power. The ex-
pertinent is to be tried, however, in the
northern suburbs of London. The
river Lea, which runs through Wal
thamstow, Tottenham, Enfield and nu-
merous other places in that district is
quite busy little river, with consider
able barge traffic, and it is now pro-
posed to develop this traffic and slim