East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-16
Aerograms Penetrate the
Human Body

You are fun of aerograms, says the
Colorado Springs Telegraph.
Thousands of them shoot through
your body every day.
The largest office buildings and
solid blocks of houses fail to i'm
pede the progress OF the wireless
message.
Perhaps the assertion has an omin-
Gus and startling sound, but 1t Is as
true as It is startling, Whether you
are eating, sleeping or walking about
whether you are at church, at the
theater or on the street-wherever
YOU are in Colorado Springs today
YOU are constantly crossing the routes
of thousands of aerograms and being
penetrated by them.
Put, If it will aid your peace Of
mind, the statement may be made
that no one aerogram fingers long
enough to allow others TO collect in
your body and form blockade Of
messages,
In fact, the ones that strike Colo
rado Springs people pass through
them at the rate of about fS6. 900
miles a second-the same swfftness
with which light travels.
An aerogram-if you are not famil-
lar with the term-is nothing more or
less than wireless telegram. They
are sent every day from the American
DeFores; Wireless telegraph tower
located on the campus at Colorado
college, to the DeForest stations at
Pueblo, Denver, Boulder, Cripple
creek and Cheyenne. Wyo. And not
only do these aerograms pass through
the people of Colorado Springs, but
through buildings or any other OBJ.
struction that covers the earth's sur
face. Brick, iron, Steel wood-no
matter what the structure-does not
stop the course of the wireless mes
sage.
When an aerogram leaves the wire
less pole in Colorado Springs. i'm
PEELED by $4,000 volts of electricity.
the message takes a course fot the
tower ''in tune" with 1t in Denver. 1t
does not rise in the air and soar
above buildings, forests and x noun
tains.
1t sticks close to the earth's surface,
climbing hills and mountains or de-
scending into valleys and ploins. but
nothing interferes with its progress or
turns it aside.
When the giant sparker, brought
into action by the operator at the key
in the Colorado Springs station, rips
N Of ~
alphabet with noise that is almost
deafening to anyone close to 1t, aud
a force that is deadly Il you cone in
contact with 1t, those dots and dashes
form words. the words sentences, the
sentences messages-aerogram in
the same manner as the ordinary
wire-telegraph. there is no wire to
convey the message to its destilm tion.
Instead. the powerful electrical ap-
paratus at the wireless dispatching
station drives the dots and dashes up
the 200-foot mast over the ststlon,
from where they follow the contain
nae" wires to their ends and are
hurled off into space.
Instantly they are picked up by the
stations throughout Colorado, the re-
ceiving station being tuned" to ex-
actly the same degree of sensitiveness
as the sending apparatus in Colorado
Springs.
The American DeForest Wireless tel
egraph station at Colorado college is
of especial interest because it shows
a wireless telegraph system in prac-
tical operation close at hand. The
messages received at the downtown
office. 116 East Pixies Peak avenue,
are repeated by telephone to the wire
less station. Here they are copied
and turned over to the telegrapher
who transmits them to their destina-
ton through the ether.