Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-10
TELEPHONY BY
WIRELESS NOW
ACCOMPL PLISHED
INVENTOR OF NEW TALKING
PROCESS IS IN LOS ANGELES
WILL MAKE CITY CENTER OF
NOVEL SPEAKING METHOD
System Will Be Established in Angel
City and All Suburban Cities Will
Be Connected with Sout.l-
ern Metropolis


An If he came back to earth now,
in this age of. practical miracles, he
would gasp with astonishment ana
finally turn to an emerald hue ana
fade away. The Divinity that shapes
all ends has permitted to be brought
to light startling and sensational
scientific results in the nineteenth cen
tury, and there is nothing so VIDE
reaching in it's effects, SO pertlllent 10
the industrial, social and commerclal
phases of life as the wireless tele-
phone, now brought to a successful
elimination.
Flights in aeroplanes are no longer
flights of fancy, modern aerial naVl-
gators outverning Verne; wireless con-
troll of dirigible airships, torpedoes ana
submarines under the sea, and wireless
telegraphic transmission OF human In
telligence across the ocean have been
accomplished and have brought home
the fact that the wonders Of modern
science far exceed the magic OF
prestidigitators, at which we were
formerly wont to cape. Because OF
its closeness to everyday domestic life,
as well as in the manipulation of COM
mercial affairs and because it is the
fifth stage and the last development
in the evolution of communication, the
wireless telephone now comes in for
more particular attention
In Los Angeles to Stay
A. Frederick Collins, electrical
physicist and inventor of wireless
telephony, is in Los Angeles TO estab-
lish the Collins system in this vicinity
and to make Los Angeles a wireless
center in the circuit of the United
States. The system will be established
locally, radating to many points from
Los Angeles, with connections at Santa
Barbara. Oxnard, Ventura, San Pedro,
Venice, Long Beach, Monrovia, Covina,
Whittier, Santa Ana, San Bernardino,
Riverside Ontario, Pasadena, San
Diego and other points.
Subsidiary companies are now formed
in ten states, and other subsidiary
companies are now in process of forma-
tion in many other states. One of the
most important centers in the grand
circuit will be California, with Los
Angeles a $ the pivotal point.
The following telegram was received
by w. A. Mears. Pacific Coast repre-
sentative for the Collins Wireless
Telephone company, Saturday night,
showing that another company for the
PRONUNCIATION of wireless telephony has
sprung into life in the active state
of Ohio;
"Highly successful Inauguration
ONO Sldle COilpdlly dC CdpllOt DtlOIS
Governor Brown, Chief Justice Atkin-
son and full body supreme court"
Medal Conferred on Inventor
In Seattle at the worlds fair the
gold medal, highest award for wireless
telephones, was conferred on A. Fred
erick Collins, and in many other places
as we'll as Seattle he has openly eX-
liibited his patents so that the world
might learn and adopt the latest means
of communication. At the Buffalo eX-
position, the electrical and business
mems exhibitions, at the Coliseum,
Chicago. and Madison Square garden,
New York city, the first American
aero carnival at Arlington, N. j.; in
Massachusetts, talking across the
Charles river from Boston to Cam
bridge in the presence of prominent
citizens; On board the Japanese flag
snip Soya in San Pedro harbor where
Admiral Ijichi talked to the Aso down
the bay; at the Holy Angels picnic,
where 10000 persons talked without
wires and in hundred other instances
the Collins wireless telephone has been
subjected to tests and always has been
successful.
Impulse System Discovered
To invent a system by which wire
less electrical impulses could be stead
lily and continuously transmitted over
long distances. rendering the trans
mission of articulate speech possible
and certain. had been for many years
the study of specialists. The great OBJ
stacle to overcome was the creating OF
powerful enough initial energy to not
only send words over distances but to
send them in consecutive and sustained
form, so that they might be heard as
an intelligible sentence.
In 1900 A. Frederick Collins made the
first long distance wireless telephone
test, talking across the Delaware river;
he then placed his instruments on the
ferryboats Ridgewood and John D.
Mccullough. Subsequently he made the
first authentic public long distance
test, talking between Newark and Phil
adelphia, and at Madison Square gar
den during the first electrical show
William Marconi. the famous italian
scientist, who brought out the wireless
telegraph, in a public speech said:
"Wireless telephony is an established
fact and to A. Frederick Collins is due
credit of the invention" To demon
strate that the wireless telephone cam
not be interfered with by the wireless
telegraph, tests were made at right
angles in Madison Square garden and
the telephone messages were heard
clearly and distinctly, the buzzing and
CIdChlilS VI lIlc ltltSId DlI
not being recorded at all in the tele-
phone receivers.
Wave Lengths Differ
"There is no chance for interference"
said the inventor, because the length
of the waves is different. We were
working on a ten-mile radius and the
telephone was tuned to fifty The pair
can work even on the same ship, and
both will work perfectly"
For his original long distance tests
Collins used as initial energy 800 volts,
which was increased to 5000 volts by a
direct connected motor generator set,
the dynamo of which was especially de-
signed to stand high potential strains.
This current energiZed a self-regulating
arc lamp, having revolving electrodes
in place of the usual induction coil of
spark telegraphy At right angles to
the oscillation arc a blowout magnet
was adjusted one end of which was
placed in series with a positive wire
and the other in circuit with the Mega
tive, thus fixing the arc in the best po-
sition, coils serving to choke back the
oscillations from the high tension gem
orator Across the 500-Volt direct cur
rent circuit the terminals of a small
transformer coil are shunted with the
interposition of a condenser to check
the high voltage direct current from
flowing through it; the primary of the