The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-07-28
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nj Is one o. those things wIisessg
liopen tie eyes sot ~
This IS what Sir liam Preeeel
tsaids after seeing q eIroI
Valdemar Poulsoti spea king teles
phone Since epoch, king IN
Yentfon Po1Isph kept teadlly az
work, and nov, at the of thirty:
lie ranks among the most brilliant
Eeiect rfcasI engineer 81 the day ne
mas discovered prfnctIo Plies .in electros
ma gneti ism which have turned upside
4 down what the text books say on the
subject and scIenti lists every here stols
low his researches with The closest.
attention
Poulson is a native Of enmarls;
born in Copenhag en. in 1s74 HIS
Iearly education was received in the
public schools d that city, after.
which he passed through the best
european technical schools.
One of the inventors earliest sue
Icesses was In connection with the lay
ting OF a submarine telephone: About
four or five years ago the German
government applied to the foremost
scientists OF Germany for a submarine
Telephone, but they were unable to-
iproduces anything satisfactory Pol1=
son was then appealed to. and sue
ceeded in laying a cable by which II
was possible to telephone under water
distance of twenty i've miles.
The inventor owes a good deal to.
| the generosity Of the late s. .Lemyig-
Fog, a Copenhagen fnancier; Some
years ago Mr.. Fog gave Poulson 500
1000 with which to carry on his expert.
ments, and to-day he has one Of the
pest equipped laboratories in the
world, in which he conducts his fe-D
searches, assisted by a large stan Of
!, trained engineers. For many years
Poulson has been associated with q
Mr.. Peterson, a College chum end one
of his, closest PERSONAL friends MIR.
Peterson is possessed of a Keen 2. g.
chanical bent and works ont the the.
Eories which the active mind OF Porl,.
son evolves. Heitoo, IS young. being
only thirty-one years old.
Backed by American Capital.
In the United States Poulso;.'s
name is familiar mainly as the fnyell-
itor Of the telegraphone. It is not only
I THE broad commercial possibilities OF
4 this invention which make it g re.
marlsab1e achievement. It is tie ia t
that it is based upon an enttrely new
principle in physics that magnetism
can be localized.
Applying this principle in pratc-
teal way, PouIson evolved a machine
which records speech. music or aay
sound such as the ticking of the tele-
graph, storing the.sound record in the,
4 form of magnetic Impressions on a
fine wire or steel plate The practical
uses OF the machine are the same IS
\ those to which the phonogroph Is put
land many more, Linked with the
telephone, the telegrRphone makes q.
permanent record Of everything thai.
i passes over the line; 1T takes dtcta-
ton at any distance covered .tly the.
telephone, and talks of. with, perfect
sIdistinctness, the records made in this
way. American capftal, seeing tie
great money-makIng possibilities of
ttelegraphone, arc backing the erection
.tof plant to manufacture the ma
chine here, and meet Tie eyer.ircreas-
ling demand.
New Kind Of Wireless.
Lately Poulson has been giving his
4 attention to wireless te1egrapl,s and
Ihas succeeded in perfectfng system
4 OF his own, which has the great ad.
vantage OF being absolutely selective.
Int has always been possible hereto.
fore with other systems to tap mes
sages, and efforts have been made by
4 tuning to obviatethts difficulty. PorI-
son has now discovered way by
which is is possible to send q message
so that it can be received only by the
1 station for which Il is intended. Some
time ago, Poulson conducted expert
ments in his Laboratories to show what
Ibis system was capable Of Half 4
4 dozen receiving stations were tixed up
around the room, ana the inventor
was able to send messages to aEy one
of them without any of the others
being afected, So far he has succeed
ed in sending messages a distance OF
I3Oo miles over land, which is euuiva-
Ilent to about 1900 miles over water.
!. a further application of his wireless
,tsystem was shown in another expert
.Iment "A 22-foot launch was lifted up
a with a motor and rIdder. Standing
a on shore Poulson started the motor by
!. wireless power and controlled the rue.