The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-08-15
NEW SYSTEM
OF WIRELESS
Armstrons.OrIi
Company in
England.

l4DANl'DNr aug. o.--llt W tNininktef
Gazette today announced that a COM
pauy had been formed with "A nominal
capital of El75,OOO which has been pri-
Natcly subscribed, for the purpose of
operating the Armstrong Orling system
Of wireless telegraphy. The paper says
4 Is Informed that this company will
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
connection 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 a moderate price
handy wireless telegraph and tele-
phone apparatus for private installa-
uon and use. 1t Will be the simplest
matter to connect all the rooms in a
nou5c, or to connect a house with the
city. Patents have been taken out by
} the Armstrong Orling people. whose
system differs in many important re-
spects from that of Sig. Marooni."
This development, 1t is said, is the
outcome of experiments made In Hugh
cudon. 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 a 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 a sim
liar manner an electric lamp raised on
a high pole far out in the fields was
lighted and eXtingushed. In all cases
the electric current was generated by
an ordinary Bunsen carbon and zinc
battery, and then led through trans
mitter, 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,
J where the receiver was waiting In
both the transmitter and receiver are
embodied the secrets of armstrong;
. and Orling's inventions.
. Last autumn one or two miles SEEM
ed to be the limits of telegraphing and
telephoning through the ground. Since
then Armstrong & Orling. with eleven
> Swedish assistants, have enormously
Increased the power of the transmitter
and the sensitiveness Of the receiver.
The Westminster Gazette says It Is in
/ formed in their behalf now that they
+ can telegraph and telephone fully five
: miles and by the time the company Is
in working order they expect to be pre-
pared to sell an apparatus with which
= everyone will be able to telegraph or
| telephone anywhere within at least
D twenty miles The ground Is always
. used as q conductor. All that is needed
y is to connect the telephones in room
% with the transmitter or receiver by
4 means of a short wire with the nearest
hi.1n will nnr a
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 Orling company is still forced
to use the air as a conductor of the
q 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 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 {
siphon recorder. 1t is so sensitive that
dry battery consisting Of piece OF
= zinc of microscopic size and an infinit-
), rsimal piece of carbon will work 1t. In
a test with Marconis Siemens relay
t the latter with eight volts recorded
= electrical impulses at 1899 miles. The
Armstrong-O rling people claim thai
l. their relay" with only one volt work
g ed even at 1893 miles.
According to advance proofs of the
e price list, the charge for transmitter'
e for sending Morse signals short dis
q tances will be G10, and for long dis
tances els, in addition to a royalty OF
n CT per year A complete telephone
y outfit for short distances will cost e
It per year and the royalty 81. The
t prices OF the relays are left blank fol
. the present, but will be filled up late'
on.