The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-05-13
"HELLor' PAKIo.
Uniting France and America by Wire
less Phone.

hellO, L dTlS! LUIS Is NeW L Orh.
To start a conversation like this
across the universe seems like an
beyond the dream of a
Jules Verne or the Imaginative picture
of BelIany Storer, yet in the busiest
city Of the world, New York, such an
experiment will take place shortly,
with every assurance of success. On
this occasion, when science announces
its triun ph to the world, society of the
nations will offer its congratulations in
unique and unrivaled manner, and
will feature on its social calendar a
luncheon at which Frederick Townsend
Martin will preside, that for interest
and charm will make all past society
events seem colnmonp. ace, when the
first wireless luncheon will take place
in the salon Of the Hotel Plaza.
While this luncheon is being served
voice will speak uniting two of the
greatest nations of history. 1t will be
the voice of Americas most prominent
society man reading a message of Pres
ident Taft to President Fallieres of
France. 1t will be transmitted to Mrs.
Nora Batch DeForest in the Metropol-
itan tower. the talented pioneer of her
sex in this field and foremost woman
civil engineer in the world, who will
receive this message from the Plaza and
send it over a radio wireless telephone
at the rate of 1856, 900 miles a second,
to fair daughter of France in the
Eiffel tower.
The salon will be decorated to re-
semble a forest. Trees will be in full
bloom and birds singing from their
branches Presiding at this table will
be Mr.. Frederick Townsend Martin
who will be the guest of the American
Wireless association of which DR.. De-
Forest is president. The guests will
be leading society people and scientific
men of note. Mons. Etienne Lianel,
consul general of France, representing
the French government and one of its
guests of honor, has said that if wire
less telephony is brought to state of
perfection it will become a political
and diplomatic time saver.
The table will represent the Atlantic
ocean. At one end will be the Metro
politan tower. INTELLECTUALLY raised in
candy; at the other end will be the
Eiffel tower. On this miniature ocean
will be small ships of various nations
sailing back and forth. The shore
landings of both France and America
will be appropriately represented.
The menus will be small telephone
directories, and the dishes will be list
ed as telephone numbers. The place
cards will be wireless messages sent
from the Ritz Carleton in France tC
the guests assembled at the Plaza ii
America. These messages will be re
ceived through wireless table phone:
permitting the guests at both tables t
converse with each other, although
separated by half world.
The walters will be summoned by
wireless telephone and at the end car
riages will be called by this means
The favors will be small radio spark
less wireless telephone outfits of yer.
light weight and will be utilized by tn
guests in the ceremonies attending tn
luncheon and carried away to common
crate the latest gigantic feat of mod
ern science.
1t will take just one .fortieth of
second for the message to travel acros
the Atlantic and about one seventh o
a second to go around the world. Fol
lowing this, mutual toasts will b
given by the guests of this wireless
= luncheon who will be separated by a
ocean, yet able to converse as if fac
to face.
= The value of this marvellous scier
tifc and mechanical feat, can hardly b
estimated, and will stand among tn
first half dozen scientific wonders G
all time. Its effect upon the trani
mission of commercial business will b
revolutionary, and will mean that "
can communicate with Europe at tn
cost now prevailing for a domestic te
egram.
The great station in the Metropol
: tan tower is now being rushed to
stage of completion. This will be al
solutely the finest wireless station
the world. It's cost is not comparab
, to that of other equipments, as the ST.
, tion comprises all sorts of experiment
: ing apparatus. 1t is thought thi
$500, 900 would not cover the outlay
: structure as high as the Metropolis
tower had to be erected especially fl
tn work. AS long as the tower h;
already been constructed, the cost, on
I side of the apparatus, will be neglil
> IDLE.
The workings of the radio wirele
peone are wonderfully simple whe
. the complex problems involved al
! overcome in its creation are consi
; cred.
In telephoning, the operator tall
= into the mouthpiece exactly as wi
the wire telephone and listens for
reply through head phone instead
!, a receiver. In order to get into cor
,, munication with a wireless telephol
station, it becomes necessary to g
the instrument to the known tune
the other station and then press Il
buzzer key which calls the person
the phone at the other end. The co
7 versation is then carried on as if Il
5 two operators were face to face.
/; The mechanical principles up
O which the radio wireless telephone d
: pend are simple enough, although the
i is great difference of opinion up
y the actual explanation of the phenom
i non of wireless telephony. Speech
s the forming of very rapid and ever
) varying series Of vibrations in the al
) and their measurement by the nerv
n of the ear. Owing to the resistance
the atmosphere, these vibrations gre
weaker and at last disappear as we g
farther from the source of disturbanC
II Telephony is the art of TRANSLATE