The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-10
NEWARK AND new
YORK LINKED BY
WIRELESS PHONE
EVENING STAR Sends Message
to the Singer Building by De-
vice of A. F. Collins.
WORDS HEARD DISTINCTLY,
BUT ANSWER INDISTiNCT
Inventor Promises to Beat Rec
ord of Poulsen--Apparatus
to Be Improved.

skcep us in touch with the weather
conditions in New York throughout the
day. ard fash Immediately II liners are
sighted coming in
This was the message sent by an
EVENING STAR representative over
the wireless telephone today from the
Office of A. Frederick Collins. on the
fourth floor of "a Clinton street. to j.
Clements, receiving on the twenty-fifth
floor of the Singer building, New York,
over the system invented by Mr.. Col
Inns. who claims that he is the pioneer
of the wireless telephone.
Clements received the message with
great clearness, but because of the fact
that the Singer building is equipped
with a temporary outfit and no aerial
sender, the answer was faint and could
not be understood.
AT the time the message IA sent the
inventor, his stenographer, J. E.. Hell
minger, of New York; Willis Graham,
of Cornwall, N. Y, and James E. Rior-
dan, an electrical engineer, of Philadel-
phia, were present, and with Mr..
Clements In the Singer building were
Henry Osborne, of Osborne & Kaeh,
electrical instrument manufacturers, of
Philadelphia, and George E.. Eames, Of
Congers, N. Y.
This practical demonstration that
wires were not necessary to carry on
a conversation between two distant
points was proven at 9 a. M. today.
Yes, 1 expect when l get a larger ap-
paratus to be able to walk a hundred
miles to a ship at sea or to any point
of and at any distance that I have cur
rent enough to reach" said Mr.. Col
Inns.
Description of Apparatus.
His Instruments consist of an ordi-
larry telephone transmitter, a special
receiver of his own device, and, most
important of all, an ordinary carbon
light In a special case, to furnish the
wave transmission, the arc making a
steady wave instead of the intermit-
tent waves produced by other wireless
telephone apparatus.
Another innovation that will, it is
thought. prove of great benefit to wire
less work and of incalculable benefit to
x-ray machines is the tube
which Mr.. Collins has just perfected.
This prevents indistinctiveness in mes
sages due to the unevenness of the cur
rents. BY a glance at this tube, which
is fitted with two small wires it can be
seen whether the sending and receiv-
ing waves are all right, and If not they
can be adjusted on the receiving and
transmission coils.
Despite the fact that the inventor is
greatly Handicapped by using the Public
Service electricity, the strength of
which varies. he has met with great
success, using sometimes as low as 500
volts TO send a message.
The ~radiatiug coils are of the variety
used in the wireless biography plant,
which is made possible by the substitu-
ton of the arc for the saunders used,
insuring a steady wav The words are
spoken into the transmitter of an or
binary telephone, conveyed through a
highly charged phosphor-bronze radiat-
ing wire to the aerial and then thrown
into the air at a level hat insured the
words being caught by the sensitive re-
ceiving apparatus in the Singer build
ing.
Another Practical Demonstration.
Last night another practical lemon
stration was given before George w.
Davis and o. c. Prescott, of Philadel-
phia: Robert Z. Clement and j. Ban
croft, of the local office of the Wash
ington Life Insurance Company. In
the Singer building with the operator
were J. ]. McGirr, d. j. O'Brien and a
number of electrical experts who are
interested in the invention.
"Yes, this Is a success. and THE
EVENING STAR is the first to sem a
business message over my new sys-
tenn said the inventor. II intend to
go to my home in Congers, n. Y, in a
few days, thirty'-five miles from here,
and l viii receive messages there. /
expect to send up a band of kites at
tached to a thin wire, and I will be
able to catch the waves on the kite
wire without any other apparatus.
IT expect to be able to soon beat the
record of Valdemar Poulsen, who re-
Gently sent a message $50 miles, n
there will be no limit to the distance
when I get an apparatus of Sufficient
size and enough power"