The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-13
NEW SYSTEM
OF WIRELESS
Armstrong; rIing
| Company in
| England.
TWO FACTORIES
| TO BE BUILT
In a Short Time People Can Buy
| a Handy Outfit for Private
installation.

LONDON, Aug. 3.-The Westminster
Gazette today announced that d COM
pany had been formed with a nominal
capital of s175.Ooo. which has been pri-
vately subscribed. for the purpose of
operating the Armstrong Orling system
of wireless telegraphy. The paper says
lit is informed that this company win
begin operations on a large scale al
most Immediately. Two factories will
be erected in Buckinghamshire, Eng
| land, and France. in places which have
already been selected. Everything in
lconnection with the new scheme down
to an Illustrated catalogue and price
| list is ready. The Gazette says:
| "A perusal of an advance proof of
| the catalogue suggests the possibility
| that everyone will be enabled within
| six months to buy for moderate price,
| a handy wireless telegraph. and tele-
phone apparatus for private fnstalla-
| ton and use 1t viii be the simplest
house, or to connect a house with the
city. Patents have been taken out by
the Armstrong -Orling people. whose
| system offers in many important re-
spects from that OF Sig. Marconi-'
This development, it is said, is the
outcome of experiments made in Hugh
tendon, 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 on steering
gear of a torpedo lying at 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
1.-THE lever of a small transmitter into
which the electrical current of small
battery had been conducted. In a sim
Iflar 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 zine
battery, and then led through a trans
mitter, which was kept In a case no
larger than a good-sized cigar box into
| the ground. Thence the impulses
lspeedily travelled to their destination,
jwhere the receiver was waiting. In
both the transmitter and receiver are
iembodied the secrets Of Armstrong 3
land Orling's inventions.
Last autumn one or two miles SEEM
ed to be the limits OF telegraphing and
Itelephoning through the ground. Since
then Armstrong g. Orling, with eleven
Swedish assistants have enormously
4 - or
and the sensitiveness Of the receiver.
1.-The Westminster Gazette says 1t is in
formed in their behalf now that they
lcan telegraph and telephone fully five
miles, and by the time the company is
in working order they expect to be pre-
lpared to sell an apparatus with which
leveryone will be able to telegraph or
Telephone anywhere within at least
Twenty miles. The ground is always
fused as a conductor. All that is needed
is to connect the telephones in a room
with the transmitter or receiver by
means OF a 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 obsta-
Gle. When telegraphed at a greater
distance than twenty miles the Arm
strong Oriing company is still forced
to use the air as a 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
Isend 100 letters in the same time that
it takes Marconi to send six. They say
| their relays" or an appliance used for
catching or receiving the electrical i'm
pulse shot through the air from sta
ton TO station, is far more sensitive
than any ever invented and is fifty
times more sensitive than Thompson's
siphon recorder. 1t is so sensitive that
a dry battery consisting of a piece of
zinc of microscopic size and an infinit-
csiInal piece of carbon will work it. In
a test with Marconi's Sienens relay,
the latter with eight volts recorded
electrical impulses at 1899 miles. The
IArmstrong-Orling people claim that
their relay with only one volt work
ed 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 e10. and for long dis
tances SIS. in addition to a royalty of
e1 per year. A complete telephone
outfit for short distances will cost G4
per year and the royalty Ell The
prices of the relays are left blank for
the present, but will be filled m later