The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-02
INVENTION ANNIHILATES SPACE.

CTEPHEN DUDLEY FIELD. speak
y ing of Lis new invention, the am
plifier." designed to facilitate
biography, especially wireless and ca
Ole, declares that by it the speed of
ocean cabling may be doubled and its
radlus of action made unlimited, and
that wireless biography may be at
once brought TO commercial practical
bility
i can hardly prophesy that my am
pllIier VIII reVoluuoniZe electrical mes
sage transmission" he continued. but
IL certainly will bring all present
hHoWn methods to the limit of per-
lection, and, of course, to greater use
fulness. For instance. il will make
i almost as easy TO send a message
from London to Shanghai, more than
iV'OOO miles, as to send it from Stock
bridge TO Great harrington, less than
ten miles. Great inconvenience is now
experienced in cabling from outside
causes, Which affect the electrical cur
rent. The amplif1er records variations
IN current only, and with it the cable
may be used even if the electrical
strength should vary from its unit, TO
its hundredtE part.
The amplifier. with its system of
wire coils and magnets, trussed on
spun glass threads one thouSanth of
an inch in size, works the same with
one hundred thousandth of an ampere
as with one-thouSand ampere Cur
rent. lave sent, by means OF the
ampifer, messages through a resist
ance coil so strong as to take two sec
oIos 70 transmit the signals at the
rate OF thirty-tWo words a minute The
Atlantic cable resistance causes but
second a half or second and three
quarters intermissiOn, and the highest
speed IT has is from sixteen to seven
Teen words minute. There the am
plehr viii save time, which, of course
means money. / have invented the way
10 cheaper all electrical message tolls,
out the cheapening does not lie with
me. however
The ampliefir practically annihilates
terrestrial space. 1t does this by join
ing together any system of telegrapi.y
or. cabling SO that a continuous mes
sage may be sent completely around
the eartE without repeating or inter
ruptlOn. This is possible even though
wireless systems and land lines and
ocean cables be all joined together
With a bit of perfecting l don't doubt
could combine ii to include telephone
systems as well.
believe it TO be perfectly possible
that by the use of a nimproved am
the telephone around the world. All
TINS would necessitate the use of an
amplifer at every station wkich marks
the present limit OF telegraphing or
teiephoning, by whatever way. with
out repeating.
When the current gets so weak from
long travel that one could not read
the Geographic clicks by sound or hear
q human voice, the amplifier will pick
out the variations in tone and auto-
matically retransmit them through new
battery powers with renewed vigor
without human aid. If it be possible
to send photographs by telegraphy
from Philadelphia TO New York the
amplifer will permit it from New
York around the world. The same with
seeing by telephone. If this is ever
possible for short distance the am
piiier viii make it perfect throughout
the earth
The aTnplitier is simply a inechani-
cal mlscroscope. 1t reads and records
all variations in intensity, and, though
the current be so attenuated that we
can discover the signals no other way.
the amphfer will use its thousand
times power and record it. BY means
or II / can receive cable or wireless
messages on paper tape, using tie
Morse alphabet, thus accomplishing
what has been sought after for many
years"