The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-10
WIRELESS FOR EVERYBODY.
Cheap Little Invention that Makes
1t Practicable in Every Home.
(From Washington Starr

From Washington Starr
Almost the limit in wireless
telegraphy and the transmission of
power without wires seems to have
been reached by young French
engineer, according to report of Con-
sui Atwell of Roubaix to the depart
ment of commerce and labor. The
consul says that the inventor has a
machine weighing about seven pounds
and costing not more than $40, with
out masts or poles, which can send
wireless messages, and is incapable of
being interrupted by any other sys-
tenn. 1t is said to be capable of ex-
ploding mines or torpedoes, of driving
torpedoes at a distance, exploding
them or bringing them back to their
starting point, and Of lighting electric
lights and starting dynamos at dis
lance without wires.
The report does not say how the ap-
paratus differentiates between the
mines and torpedoes of a friend and
those OF an enemy, or how If it is used
on shipboard it is to be prevented from
exploding all the torpedoes in a
squadron. as we'll as the particular one
that has been shot at an enemy's ship
The report speaks as though all of
these problems had been solved and
the invention was practical success.
The report says, in part:
There will be no longer any
necessity for fishing up floating tor
pedoes, or will there be any occasion
to cut wires connected with them. No
matter where explosives that are pro-
vided with the Denissel invention may
be placed, no power can prevent their
explosion at the moment decided upon
by the person manipulating the
machine which regulates the wave
emissions. The new invention Is APP
plicable also to the direction and firing
OF automobile or Whitehead torpedoes.
This is an important point, when the
following facts are considered:
]. That five out Of ten torpedoes in
active war miss aim either by faulty
throwing or deviation. (The Denissel
invention allows for throwing them in
any direction, even backward. White
head torpedoes thus equipped could
neither miss aim nor be lost.)
2. That torpedo will explode even
II 1t be caught in the Bullivant nets
with which large ships are provided
and cause great damage. The White
head torpedo costs several thousand
francs.
The Denissel machine can send
forth as we'll as receive on land tele-
grams that are specially of its own,
and that no other machine can inter-
cept. 1t can also communicate with
submarines. 1t can set in motion at
long distance electric machines, steam
motors. light lighthouses, and even set
a typewriting machine in motion, SO
tnat 1t Will print long ways of from
the post OF emission whatever one de-
sires that it shall print.
AS soon as the French minister of
the navy was advised by Mr.. Denissel
OF the hrst trial of his remarkable, in
Ventlon Lieutenant Lacoste of the navy
was delegated to proceed to experiment
win the inventor. In order to demon
strate to Lieutenant Lacoste that his
machine works at long distance and
without poles. Mf. Denissel accom-
panied the lieutenant on a train going
IRON Arras to Paris with one of his
machines, and asked Lieutenant La
coste to give a note to the person
manipulating the waves of emission
that should indicate the hour when the
machine was to explode, this note to
>PSHSN ohis dltCI luc departure
OF the train. At the hour indicated in
the note the machine exploded in the
train forty kilometres from Arras, by
means of waves sent from Arras.
Since that time DR.. Denissel has ex-
perimented at distance of several feet
under water and all Of the experiments
have been successful.
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put up lot of them. A Jar of them
makes very acceptable mite, too, to
give some invalid friend to whom
yours would taste much better than a
jar purchased.
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call at Kingman's.