The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-30

| ing a large sum of money every year to equip It's battleships with them Our government is also experimenting
 with the different systems, and wire-
 less telegraphy is now used by the ! public on a very extensive scale II is used far more than the people real | ize in communications between sta- tions on land and upon sea. There are at the present time two well or ganized and strong companies carry ing on the wireless telegraph bust- ness in the United States. The De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company has here at the exposition, in addition to two finely equipped stations inside the electricity building. two towers. each of which is over two hundred and fifty feet high. From these tow CTS messages can be simultaneously sent out to two different points and
 before the closing of the fair they will transmit messages as far as Kan sas City and Chicago.
 Wireless TeIegPams to China. DO you think 1t will ever be possible to telegraph across the Pacific, Pro- lessor Goldsborough?
 Tt Is within the range of possibility, although 1t may be long before 1t is attained. The De Forest Company has already equipped a large station at &c., attle. We have a model of that station in the Electricity Building. From Se- attle messages will be sent to Alaska, to cities on the Pacific coast. and pos sibly to the Hawaiian Islands and the Orient. It would be a wonderful thing If we could telegraph from san fTan- cisco to China, would 1t notT
 New Things in Electrical TranspOrta- tiOn.
 The conversation here turned to cleo tricaI transportation, and asked as to the progress made in that direction.
 Professor Goldsborough replied;
 "In electrical transportation there is nothing new which the public can ap- nreciate. There are new things, might say startlingly new, to the en- cheering world, and likely to entirely revoIutionize the system or electrical transportation. especially over long distances: but the character of the in- ventions is so extremely technical that the general public would not be able to appreciate all that they carry with fhem A car equipped with an appa-
 ratus. designed to work under a high
 measure alternating current, does not
 snnear different in any degree from the nresent trolley car to the layman, and, indeed. only a trained and skilled cleo
 trician can appreciate to any great ex-
 tent what this new oeVeiopment in-
 wolves"
 Electric Locomotives for steam Rail-
 roads.
 Docs that mean that electricity will take the place of steam on our big rail- roads?"
 q think it safe to say" replied the electrician, 'inasmuch as electric cars are now being operated between cities several hundred miles apart, more cheapIy and with the same safety and speed as the steam railroads, and that without the aid of freight trahic, that the capitalists will eventually see that they can make a saving by doing away with the steam locomotive, and taking the electric locomotive in its place. This Is especially so because recent de- yelopments include electric railway apparatus which are much more eco nomical for long distance work than those now common in America . eThe fact that the New York Central ARailraad has equipped thirty-six miles kf its in track near the city Of New