Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-05-15


America will be appropriately repre-
scented.
The menus will be small telephone
directories, and the dishes will be listed
as telephone numbers. The place cards
will be wireless messages sent from the
Ritz Carleton in France to the guests
assembled at the Plaza in America.
These messages will be received through
radio wireless table phones permitting
the guests at both tables to converse
by half a 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 very
light weight, and will be utilized by the
guests in the ceremonies attending the
luncheon and carried away to COM
memorate the latest gigantic feat of
modern science.
1t will take just one-fortieth Of a
second for the message to travel across
the Atlantic, and about one-seventh of
second to go around the world. Fol
lowing this, mutual toasts will be given
by the guests of this wireless luncheon,
who will be separated by an ocean, yet
able to converse as if face to face.
The value Of this marvellous scienti-
fc mechanical feat can hardly be esti-
mated, and will stand among the first
half a dozen scientific wonders of all
time. Its effect upon the transmission
lie 81 l.
tionary, and will mean that we can com
municate with Europe at the cost now
prevailing for a domestic telegram.
The greatest station in the Metropoli-
tan tower is being rushed TO a stage
Of completion. This will be absolutely
the finest wireless station in the world.
Its cost is not comparable to other
equipments, as the station comprises all
, sorts Of experimenting apparatus. 1t
is though that 100000 would not cover
the outlay if structure as high as the
Metropolitan tower had to be erected
especially for the work. AS long as the
tower has already been constructed, the
cost, outside Of the apparatus, will be
negligible.
The working of the radio wireless
phone are wonderfully simple when the
complex problems involved and over
come in its ornation are considered.
In telephoning, the operator talks
into the m0uthpiece exactly as with the
wire telephone and listens for a reply
through head phone instead Of re-
, ceiyer. In order to get into communica-
ton with q wireless telephone station,
it becomes necessary TO get the instru-
ment 10 the known tune Of the other
station, and then press the. buzzer key
which calls the person TO the phone at
the other end. The conversation is
then carried on as il the two operators
were face 10 face.
The mechanical principles which the
radio wireless telephone depend are sim
pie enough, although there is q great
difference Of opinion upon the actual
explanation Of the phenomenon Of
wireless telephony. Speech IL the form
ing of very rapid and eYer-Varying se-
ries of vibrations iu The air. and their
measurement by tho nerves Of the ear.
Owing ~ tAe resistance ~ the atmos.
plefe, these vibrations grow weaker
Hnd ai lasi disappear ae Ne 900 farther
from fAe source of disturbance. gele.
phouy y fAe ar of uauslatipg those
vibrations inio vibrations of ether
whose leaseI resistance enablea chem NJ
le carried ~ great distance for fAe
translation INTO Az vibrations agaln. ~
only iAe nF vibrations ean IA meas