The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01

The Invention Of q French Engineer
Electric Force of Great Power
Transmitted Without Wires-What
the Machine Can Do.

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Almost the limit In wireless teseg-
rapny and the Transmission Of power
without wires seems 10 have been
reached by a young French engineer.
according 10 a report Of Consul At
well, Of Roublaix, 10 the Department
Of Commerce and Labor. The consul
says that the inventor has a machine
weighing about eve pounds and
costing not more than SO without
masts or poles. which can send wire
less messages, and is capable OF be-
ing interrupted by any other sys-
tem. 1t is said to be capable Of ex-
ploding mines Or -orpedoes, or driv-
ing torpedoes at a distance, explod-
ing them or bringing them back TO
their starting point, II OF lighting
electro lights and starting dynamos
at a distance without wires.
The report does not say how the
apparatus Afferentiates between the
mics and t~orpedoes of a friend and
those of an enemy or now If i. is
used on shipboard it is to be pre-
vented from exploding all the torpe-
does in a squadron as we'll as the
particular n that has been shot at
an ene1ny's ship. The report speaks
as Though all of these problems had
been solved and the invention were a
practical G
The report says in part:
"Tnere will be no longer any ne
cessity for fishing up floating toree~
does, Or avoiding those that have
ben sunk, O Will there be any
| occasion tO cut wires connected with
1lem. No matter where explosive
that are provided with the Denssial
Invention may BE- placed, no power
a prevent their explosion at the
moment decided npon by the person
manipulating tie machine which
regulates the wave emissions The
new invention Is applicable also 10
the direction and fishing of automi~
bile or Whitehead tOrpedoes- This
is an important point when the fol-
lowing facts are considered.
q. That EnVe out of ten yorpedees
in active war miss aim either by
faulty throwing or deviation. Ghe
Denissell 1ltsention allows for throw
ing them in any direction, even
! backwards, Whitehead torpedoes thus
s equipped could neither miss aim nor
be LOST
"2. That a torpedo will explode
even, if It be caught in the BullivanI
nets wifi which large ships are pro-
vIdeu and cause great damage. The
Whitehead torpedo costs several thous-
and francs.
THE Denissel machine a send
form as we'll as receive on,land tele-
grams that are a specially of its
own, and that no other machine can
Intercept. 1t en- alsgn communicate
with submarines. 1t can set in mo-
ton Ill long distance. electric ma
chimes, steam motors, lighthouses
and sven set a typemriting ma
chine an motion, SO that it will
pzint IA long ways off from the post
OF EMISSION Whatever desresiY
OF emission whatever one desires
that RI shall print
A soon as the French Minister
Of the Navy was advised by Mr..
De1iissel of the first trial of his re-
markab1e invention lieutenant La
coste, Of the navy, was delegated to
proceed with the experiment with the II
ventE-. In order to demonstrate to
Lieutenant Laooste that his machine
works at long distance and without
poles , Mr.. Denisel accompanied the
lieutenant on a train going from
Arras to Paris with one Of his ma
chimes and asked lieutenant La
cyste to give a 1Ete TO the person
manipulating the waves Of emission
that should indicate the hour when
the machine was to explode, this zote
to be ope ned only after the departure
of the ira in, 20 k%ilouneee1s from ArTas.
by means of waves sent from ArTas.
~Since hat time MIR. Denissel has
experiment ted at a distance of several
feet under ground and at a great depth
under wat er, and all I'll his expert
ments nav e been successful Wash
ington Stal'.