Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-08-07
WIRELESS 'PHoNlNG
SENSATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT
BY ENKLIsH JOURNAL.
NEITHER WIRES NOR POLES
And Instruments After Being Bought
for $40 VIII Call for a Year
ly Royalty of $5-Company
Formed to Put Invention on the
Market.

The Westminster Gazette Of Lon
don announces that a company has
been formed. with a nominal capital
of $4,000, 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 nave already been
selected, Everything in connection
with the new scheme down to an IL
Illustrated catalogue and price list is
Iready 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 moderate
price handy wireless telegraph and
telephone apparatus for private in
stallation and use. II will be the
simplest matter to connect all the
rooms in house or to connect a
house with the city Patents have
been taken out by the Armstrong
many important respects from that OF
Sig. Marconi."
This development, it is said, is the
outcome of experiments made at
Hughenden in the autumn Of 1901,
when electrical impulses were sent
through the ground without wires and
without the high poles used by Mar
conf Among the experiments was
one OF the steering gear of torpedo
lying at distance of 500 yards in
ditch filled with water. The torpedo
was moved at will to the right or left
by pressing or releasing the lever Of
small transmitter, into which the
electrical current of small battery
had been conducted. In similar
manner an electric lamp raised on a
high pole far out in the fields was
lighted and extinguished.
In all cases the electric current
was generated by an ordinary Bunsen
carbon and zinc battery and then led
through a transmitter, which was
kept in case no larger than good
sized cigar box into the ground.
he Thence the impulses speedily travel
nj ed to their destination, where the re-
es ceiver was waiting. In both the
" transmitter and receiver are embed
is ded the secrets of Armstrong; and
)r. Orlings inventions. Last autumn
nd one or two miles seemed to be the
,e. limits Of telegraphing or telephoning
". through the ground. Since then
n. Armstrong and Orling with eleven
IN Swedish assistants, have enormously
increased the power of the transmit
of ter and the constituencies of the re-
IS eeiver
10 The Westminster Gazette says it is
Id informed in their behalf now that
ia they can telegraph or telephone fully
ID five miles, and by the time the com
le pany is in working order they expect
to be prepared to sell an apparatus
with which every one will be able to
telegraph or telephone anywhere
within at least twenty miles The
ground is always used as a conductor.
e All that is needed is to connect the
telephones In a room with the trans
mitter or receiver by means of short
IS wire with the nearest gas or water
e 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
lance than twenty miles the Arm
strong-Orling company is still forced
to use the air as conductor of the
shooting electrical sparks from sta
ton to station. This requires high
poles at both ends. but they claim
that these pole 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 Mar.
conf to send six
They say their relays" or an ap-
pliance used for catching or receiv-
ing the electrical impulse shot
through the air from station to sta
ton, Is far more sensitive than any
ever invented and is fifty times more.
sensitive than Thompson's syphon
recorder. 1t is SO sensitive that a
dry battery consisting OF a piece OF
zinc Of microscopic size and an infini-
tesimal piece Of carbon will work 1t.
In test with Marconis Siemens
relay" the latter with eight volts
recorded electrical impulses at 1899
miles. The Armstrong Orling people
claim that their relay" with only one
volt worked even at 1899 miles.
According to advanced proofs of
the price list the charge for trans
mitters for sending Morse signals
short distances will be $50 and for
long distances $75, In addition to
royalty OF S. per year. A complete
telephone outfit for short distances
will cost $50 with a yearly royalty OF
e IS. The prices Of the relays are left
9 blank for the present but will be
!. filled up later on.