Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-11
IMPORTANT IN WAR.
When Wireless Telegraphy Will Be
 an Important Factor.
Experiments in Germany Show That the Service Will Undoubtedly Be of Great Value on
 the Field.

Whether the battle be waged on land or sea, between armies or napies, the wireless transmission of intelligence will loom up, gigantic specter, dread ed by the enemy like mirage in the desert by the traveller, says the St. Louis Republic. ! Ever since the advent of this seem- ing miracle, equaling in every respect the telepa thy of which we have so long dreamed, the powers of the world have been testing it's merits so that when the next war is on and the crucial mo- ment arrives, troops or vessels may communicate with each other even though a distance of 50 miles separates them. The military wireless telegraph used in Germany is known as the Braun-Siemens & Holske system, and is the invention of Prof. Ferdinand Braun, instructor in electrical engi- neering in the Physical Institute, Strassburg, Germany.
 The equipments were specially de- signed for the recent German army maneuvers and were placed in charge of the Royal Military Airship battalion. During the trials of transmitting and receiving wireless messages after hard runs and forced marches the results were witnessed by the kaiser, who evinced hisapproval of the operations. The conditions under which the bat talion rendered it's teIegraphic service were severe in the extreme, as, for in stance, in the cross country runs, when the carriages were ca rried overland at terrific speed, limited only by the en- durance and ability of the horses.
 When the command would be sudden ly shouted to make ready the horses would be drawn up, the engineers of the battalion would start the gasoline engine and dynamo, supplying electric lity to the sending instrument, while bothers of the battalinn would send kite soaring through the air heaven. ward several hundred feet and carry ing the aerial wire which is ordinarily suspended from mast
 Simultaneously the receiving appa- .Eatus would be ad jnsted, and it was found that it required just fiRe minutes ito get everything into-working order to send and receipemessages.
 The object of these<maneuyers wa s to determine whether or not thesd adi- cate and dsenSfittiiye tr umentsin wire less te3agraphy would be able to with stand the hard usage, as we'll as the value from a strategic point of~view.
 With these thoughts as the doIni- hating factors two experimental sta tions were set up,s one of them being 4oJ horP of 4u md the other on the Pomeranian coast, at Grass Mollen.
 These stations were of the regu1a- ion type, having masts 75 feet in height, from which the sending andre ceivrng wires were suspended. These two permanent stations constituted the base from which the orders were issued
 Three of the portable wireless teIe- graph systems for the field completed the military accouterments for wire less signaling, which was to take place in a zone approximating 35 miles, a radius sufficiently great to insure its usefulness in actual warfare.
 The instruments of the portable military outfits are similar to those of the permanent station sets, and the general principles underlying the con struction of the apparatus are the same as those of the Marconi system that is to say, the transmitter, car ried on one of the carriages, consists of generator for sending out the in visible electric waves by means of the aerial wire.
 The generator is an induction coil, having a spark-gap connected to cop per cylinder, or artificial earth, 7 as it is termed, and the aerial wire