Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-04-29

II PLACED THE RECEIVER To Ny EAR
man can travel over and are ignoring
open fields? If a man cuts across
lots he may reach you quicker and
more easily than If be 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
Wns practically perfected. II ! were
to go into a detailed description of it
which | 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 Of 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. Ii is
fundamental law, like the law of grav-
ity or like that other law not yet gem
orally recognized, but which is involv-
ed in the fourth dimension-the law of
levity.
Il made no public announcement Of
my invention while in its unprotected
stages, because if | failed | did not
care to endure the ridicule of the more,
so called. practical scientists. | had
but one confidant. and that a woman.
You think a woman cannot keep &
secret? Well, she kept one OF the
greatest secrets science has yet tried
TO conceal.
''Six months ago my inventon was
as nearly perfect as l could make 1t.
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-I 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 | was not yet ready
to announce my invention. wanted TO
first make a supreme test of it, ana SO
tourneyed to Calcutta. and there INSTALL
ing my receiver, / cabled to my assistant
that 1 was ready. On a certain day, AT
certain hour, she was to go TO the trans
mitter and there repeat to me message
While in New York she had sent me in
closed with another letter a sealed en-
velope i will repeat to you, she wrote,
when you reach Calcutta certain mes
sage After hearing it from the receiver
break the seal of this envelope, and you
will find within the message which VIII
utter. Then you will know there mas
been no mistake
Near midnight in Calcutta at mo-
nent 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. II is my voice that
you hear l am in Chicago. II Is noon
Breaking the seal of the envelope, l then
rsad in NV assistants familiar hand
writing this message: This is josephine
It is my voice that you hear. am In
Chicago. 1t is noon
After that she told me many things,
but | could only listen and not answer. !
could receive a message, but could not
transmit one
THE voics of my assistant was vibrated
10 me through nearly $500 miles of solid
earth Incredible as IT sounds, II yet was
reaIIy nothing Had she been stationed
on Mars wfth~lny 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-
motest star in the universe, only it would
have been longer coming wave once
started radiates through all space.
81 am on my way to Chicago now,
where I shall construct a second trans
mitter and receiver. With these com.
pleted / shall repeat the tests and then
announce to the world my invention
1--WE are nearing our destination. l per-
ceive. Thanking you. sir, for your polite
attention. / will bid you good day.. Ht
Compartment, nodding good naturedly in
response to my bow.