The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-05-26


man can travel over and are ignoring
open fields? If man cuts across
lots he may reach you quicker and
more easily than il he comes around
on the asphaltum walk The same is
imaginably true of the telephone wire
For dozen years | have been
working on an invention which en-
bodies this idea of wireless teleph-
ony. Six months ago my invention
was practically perfected. If 1 were
to go into a detailed description of it
which l am not going to dO-you per-
haps would not understand me unless
you possess unusual knowledge of the
science of sounds. will say, however,
that the invention is composed OF
transmitter and receiver, having
some of the features If the ordinary
telephone transmitter and receiver
and, necessarily, several added fea
lures, and, broadly speaking, the in
vention is based upon the law of
etheric vibration, the subject which |
have just been discussing. 1t is
fundamental law, like the law of gray
ity or like that other law not yet gen
orally recognized, but which is involv
ed in the fourth dimension-the law of
levity.
II made no public announcement of
my invention while in it's unprotected
stages, because if l failed l did not
care to endure the ridicule of the more,
SO called, practical scientists. l had
! but one confidant, and that a woman.
You think a woman cannot keep a
! secret? Well, she kept one of the
! greatest secrets science has yet tried
/ to conceal.
six months ago my invention was
as nearly perfect as l could make it.
! Our first test was made in Chicago, be-
tween the north and south sides. Our
success was all that we had hoped for.
Then | took with me to New York the
receiver had completed but one re-
ceiver and one Misunderstanding
my assistant in Chicago with the
transmitter The result of the test
made between those two cities was also
! successful. But l was not yet ready
| to announce my invention. l wanted to
first make supreme test of it. and so L
| journeyed to Calcutta, and there. INSTALL
ing my receiver, L cabled to my assistant
| that / was ready On a certain day, at a
| certain hour, she was to go to the trans
mitter and there repeat to me a message.
While in New York she had sent me in
closed with another letter sealed en-
velope. L will repeat to you, she wrote,
/ when you reach Calcutta a certain mes
sage After hearing it from the receiver
break the seal of this envelope. and you
will find within the message which l will
utter. Then you will know there has
been no mistake.
Near midnight in Calcutta at a mo-
ment corresponding to exactly noon In
Chicago l placed the receiver to my ear,
and then and there with no wire connect
ing transmitter and receiver l heard re-
peated as distinctly as you have ever
heard a voice by telephone this message:
This is Josephine. 1t is my voice that
you hear. l am in Chicago 1t is noon
Breaking the seal Of the envelope, 1 then
read in my assistants familiar hand
writing this message: This Is Josephine
1t is my voice that you hear l am in
Chicago. 1t is noon
after that she told me many things
but could only listen and not answer.
could receive message, but could not
transmit one.
to me through nearly 5000 miles of solid
earth. Incredible as 1t sounds it yet was
really nothing. Had she been stationed
on Mars with my transmitter her voice
would have reached me just the same. II
would have reached me the same from
: the sun or from Sirius or from the re
: hottest star In the universe, only 1t woulC
have been longer coming. A wave once
started radiates through all space.
II am on my way to Chicago now
where / shall construct a second trans
) mitter and receiver With these com
pleted 1 shall repeat the tests and theI
. announce to the world my invention.
1--WE are nearing our destination, / per
ceive Thanking you. sir, for your polit'
attention, l will bid you good day" H,
tossed away hls.cigar stump and left thu
compartment, nodding good naturally II
RESPONSE to my bow.