The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-13

New York Inventor Says Wireless
Instrument PLIERS Converse
ton from Wires.

Cottage Lake, Mass. May III
Charles E. Aide Of New York, who
has been pursuing experiments 9 here:
since last fall in wireless; telephonlng,
has. he says, solved the problem OF
wireless telephoning, and the result IS
so simple that it is likelyvto create q
sensation in thesbusiness world as well
as in scientific circles.
Mr.. Alden, while studying the prob,
lem, constructed an instrument so small
that it can be carried in vest pocket,
which, attached to wireless: battery,
such as is used by the Marconi system,
at once begins catching conversations
carried along ordinary telephone wires,
the distance depending only upon the
energy behind the telephones that arc
sending the messages. ISL 81 y,.>---r.
It was one stormy night . few weeks
ago, when Mr. Alden had perfected his
little receiver and set itup IN, his stu
do here on Martha 8 Vineyard island,
that he sat smoking his -after-dinner,
pipe and wondering where he had bet
ter set up his sending apparatus, that
he was startled by the sound&of voice
in the room, of which he was the|only
occupant. . Outside the storm howled
along the coast and beat the waves
against the rocks of the island.
~ Hello! Hello! Is that Mr.. Smiths
Yes2 Come over this evening if you
cam ~. r.. 90 ~ :
"All right. Goodby..'2,' 49,. .,@7s H..
= Began to Buzz. l.. -.
Mr.. Alden sat bolt upright. Then he
got up, and went to the door. There
was no one there. The. little instru-
ment on the table began to buzz again,
and then came another voice, a different
one this time. asking the price OF. eggs
and ordering the groceryman to. send
up some potatoes the first thing in the
j. Like flash Mr.. Alden realized the
situation. His little instrument was
not waiting for his sending instrument
| to be set up, but was differing mes
sages from the New England Telephone
c6mpany's wireTwhich ran along road
three miles away. Wild with delight,
Mr.. Alden rushed across lots and got
some of his friends to come in and wit
ness the success of his discovery. When
they arrived the little apparatus was
still busy disclosing neighborhood Cos
sip and all sorts of messages that were
buzzing over the wires of the island.
To reporter who called upon him
Mr.. Alden told the story Of his discov-
cry and how the voices Of the night
came to him unsolicited, like the talk of
spirits. .... = r.
~ was sitting in my2roem one night
when it dawned upon me that with the
wireless telegraph comparatively simple
the wireless telephone must be equally
simple. I jotted down on paper my
ideas as they came to me, and the next
chine. I was merely experimenting, not
having the remotest idea that I was
anywhere near success. Suddenly, when
I did. not dream I had perfected the
machine, I received the messages from
neighboring ordinary telephones, as
have told you. The revelation took me
off my feet.' IT,, IL
Like Wireless System.
The basis of the system is like that OF
the wireless telegraph. But small in
vention, the details of which he does
not make public, completes it. This il
machine, attached ito the wireless bat
teries, which is responsible for the re
suits.
mo wire, was attached to the receiv
ing instrument. the latter simply being
placed on table in a room. At pres
ent Mr.. Alden is working on the send
ing parts of the apparatus.
The possibilities are almost imitless
With this new invention one may we
be able to carry around in his pocket
private telephone, with which he ca
call up his house and talk with his fam
lily wherever he may be. Persons sittin
in the grandstand at the race track ma
telephone to their friends in the city tn
results of the races undetected. "
Messages sent by telephones keyed t
ordinary tension NAV be receiyed h
anyone within miles, who has a poke
;. telephone. And the perfection Of tn
attuning apparatus by which individus
telephones are keyed to any fraction q
a snote' or degree of, tension, ma
make it possible to have con,parativ
secrecy as receivers will take the me
sage only when attuned to perfect a
cord. And the wireless telegraph e,
periments have shown that there can
time be thousands Of these fractions
| tension.