Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-10-11
NEWS
Wireless Telegraphy on Railroad Trains
In Germany Proven a Great Success.
Experiments in United States

Practical experiments have demon
s,rated that wireless telegraphy on
moving trains will render valuable
service In preventing accidents. re-
ports Consul-General Guenther from
Germany to the department Of CON-
merce and labor, As supplementing
Consul Harris report on the same
subject. and presented In the Railway
World of September 22. Consul-Gen-
tral Guenther's ore recent report
shows remarkable progress In these
experiments In Germany which Is OF
vital interest to the railways OF the
United States, especially In view OF
the fact that American railroads, In
particular the Chicago and Alton, are
a. present experimenting with wire.
less telegraphy on moving trains.
Consul. General Guenther says: Two
years ago the Prussian railway AZ
t'crities made experiments with wire.
less biography on moving trains upon
The "~ossen;Herlin military railroad.
Each station was supplied with seid'
irs and receiving apparatus, as were
slso the trains. For the transmission
o. stems the telegraph wires along
The railrcad were used. In order to
save electric energy. These expert
rents. which were continued up to q
few weels ago. have clearly demon
Grated that the apparatus for wire
less telegraphy upon a moving train
can Communicate at all times with any
'eleyraph station on the line, and re-
. port instantaneously. Irregularities,
accidents. etc. Private kilograms can
also be sent calling for help. notify
me anxious relatives of passengers
Taiing at stations. etc. On the other
End. kilograms from each station
Ia t,each the moving train and warn
,ne locomotive engineer against col
ns.ohs, ln0ediments on the track, and
o'her dangefs, Portable wireless tele-
sraph STATIONS are now manufactured
or such light weight that carts or
wagons are no longer needed for their
TRANSFORMATION, the parts being car.
RED by the men. While with stations
moved bv wagons the air conductors
are attached to balloons or kites, with
portable stations they are attached
10 steel masts. These masts, three
IN number, can be pushed together
IKE a telescope, and are then about !
l2hfeet long, but can easily be pull. |
ca out to a length Of 33 feet. Owing
10 their light weight. which for one |
mast. Inclusive Of braces and wire
rope, Is only "A pounds, they can be
put up In short order. They are SUD-
piled at the foot with cast-iron ground
rlates. and twice steadied. in three |
directions. by means of wire ropes. |
fastened to ground anchors. Between
the three masts zinc-coated copper |
ropes. consisting of eight twisted !
wires are stretched as air conductors. !
The ropes are fastened to the
masts by brass hooks. with light
glass insulators.
the electric energy required is fur /
nished by a so-called tread DYNAMO
mounted uDon a sort of stationary
bicycle with a light seat for the man.
who keeps the machine going with
his feet. The weight of this dynamo
is A pounds. The electric energy
can ESQ be supplied by a portable
storage battery. For the t%ransporta-
ton of the complete wireless tele-
graph station with a tread dynamo
ten men ere required: eleven mon
where a storage battery IS used. The
net weight of a complete station with
tread dynamo is 40 pounds: If a
storage battery is used. SOC pounds.
SO far these stations. on account Of
the limited height of the masts. can
only be operated on level lands for
10 to Is miles, bit thew can 10 easily
moved, are quickly put up, and work
with certainty.