Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-09
Machine on Exhibition Which it
Is Claimed Will Revolution
ize Old Systems.
THOUSAND WORDS A MINUTE.
Electricians mt Inst Have Overcome
Static" Force, and Invention is
Said 10 be Success.

Special Correspondence.
Washington, d. c.. Jan. when
Admiral Evans sigralled to the cap
to shape their course southwark, he
spoke to them with his own voice,
or rather with the voice of his i'm
mediate subordinate. The signal
code" that locker full OF flags of vari-
GUS designs, was used only to give
the commander of Americas greatest
fleet. Every vessel IS equipped with
an aerial telephone outfit, that newest
wonder in the development of cleo
trical science. 1t is probable that
during the entire journey of the fleet
in its course from Hampton Roads to
the Golden Gate there will be no per
Rod when the great vessels will be
more than 20 miles away from the
flagship of Fighting Bob" That
means that he Will be at all times
in telephone communication with each
and every commanding officer--unless
the new apparatus fails to work.
While wireless telephony is as yet
practically untried, wireless telegraphy
is in constant use and has passed far
D1sOiiu lllt HlsAbts IL 10
the common belief that Marconi, the
ltalio- Briton, was the first TO demon
strate that messages may be flashed
through the air without the use of
wires and that the first experiments
In this direction were made less than
ten years ago. But old-time tele-
graphers recall the fact that 40 years
ago q dentist of the city of Wash
ington succeeded in doing the very
thing for which Marconi has received
all the credit. This dentist was DIR.
Loomis and the Congressional Globe
for the Forty-third Congress contains
the record of a discussion of an act to
incorporate the Loomis Aerial Tele-
graph company which authorized the
corporation to produce electricity from
the air for Geographic, light, heat and
power purposes. The company was
duly Incorporated, but it appears that
the money received from the sale of
it's shares was used for other purposes
than the development of the LOOMS
invention.
Yet while the trend of electrical de-
velopment seems to be in the direc-
ton of wireless transmission, there are
ut the same time electricians of note
who are aiming at the improvements
I'm wire service, one OF the principal
reasons being the inability to send
wireless messages of a confidential
character without the use of code.
1000 WORDS A MINUTE.
There is now on exhibition III this
city novel device for rapid auto
matte telegraphy that is attracting
wide attention among scientists. public
men and others, who have witnessed
it's operation. 1t is called the Tele-
post, and by It's use 1000 words
minute can be sent a distance of 500
miles. There have been several de-
vices for sending messages automat-
ically, but there was one defeating
agency with which the electricians
could not cope; they could not control
the static charge of telegraph
wire. This force continually baffled
inventors and In spite of occasional
brilliant performances their general
average was not above that of the
old Misunderstanding method.
STATIC" FORCE OVERCOME.
Mr.. Patrick Delany, an electrical en-
gineer of distinction and former tefe-
graph operator. had watched with in
terest the experiments along these
lines and finally, as q result of his
investigation, he discovered that the
heretofore hostile static" force could
not only be overcome but that II could
be utilized. His discovery solved the
problem of rapid telegraphy by maxi