The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-22
WILL OGDEN
B E [ II E
POINT
WHERE RADIO TELEPHONE WILL
ESTABLISH AN OFFICE
Great Claims Made for New Wireless
Method of Transmitting voice, What
Will the Future Demonstrate?

To be one Of the ganglia on the
great transcontinental line OF radio
telephone communication Is a pros
pect for Ogden In the near future.
Whether It is to be Salt Lake or this
city, that is to have this marked good
fortune. Is yet To be decided. but it
will be one OF the other, according to
w l.. Leonard, of the pioneer staff of
the American Radio Telephone COM
pany who has been in this state for
sometime making experiments and
taking observations and who leaves
for San Francisco this morning, Mr.
Leonard said last evening:
This is an odd and unusual matter.
the first effort at outlining the prac-
tical operation of one OF the Won
ders OF the day. 1t is totally differ
ent from planning a wire telephone
system of trunk lines. or new rail
road system, and so on as we are con-
fronted by none OF the obstacles of
the foregoing and are governed by
few of the same objections. We need
no franchise from town or state, We
talk as we'll through mountain OF over
a lake, wind. snow, lack OF Water,
character of soil need not be account
ed. and instead Of endeavorinG to fol-
low the railroads of the present anJ
their artificlally created centels OF
population We have an eye to the
tracks of airship travel OF the future
and the changed centers Of population.
1t can be set down as certain, according
to Leo Stevens, Prof. Kennert. the
Wrlghts and other great students of
Al ,l~t
from the coast must make perch In
this valley Whether they will des-
cenJ and ascend from Ogden or Salt
Lake Is matter of conjecture. The
conformation OF the mountains, to my
mind. leads me to think that very
slight southerly detour from Ogden
would be the best sailing line.
The interest OF radio-telephone in
that matter Is due To the fact that
the same human voice three hund-
red miles without wires is the one
most likely to be of the greatest i'm
portance in the driving of airships
Hudson Maxim and several other
scientists are on the eve Of the discoV-
cry of the radio motor and its basis
Will be the same as that of the radio
telephone
In simple words this is as follows:
Earth. air and water and all material
| things are composed of molecules of
various sorts which even in SO dense
a material as lead do not touch each
| other. The space between Is filled
| with ether infinitely Lense. rigid and
unelastic. The rajio-telephone uses
the ether to make connection between
one instrument and another in place
of wires and so the simplicity of the
whole is easily seen The difficult
point has been to secure secrecy and
to talk 10 one instrument and only
one. BY tuning each receiver as a
harp is tuned with a pitch different
from all others and by having on the
sender tuning dial which when tuned
to the number of the instrument to be
called, tunes the sender TO the same
pitch OF the receiver desired, this feat
has been accomplished.
The entire Dracticabiity, economy
and secrecy of the rajio-phone has
been tested out in the American and
other navies. on the seaboard and great
lakes. 1t was the means of communi-
cation between the ships used BY Ad-
miral Bob Evans on his famous cruise
and when he visits Utah. ms | under.
stand he intends doing in the near fu.
ture to address public assemblagc
in reference to the cruise from Hamp-
ton Roads TO San Francisco, one of
his highest tributes Will be to this
the latest marvel OF science.
Il have given the general import.
ance that this Will be TO ogden and
now word as to the local. If a ra.
dio-phone is placed in an engineer
cab he can talk at any instant to any
station along the line, to the train
dispatcher or TO the engineer of any
other train on the road An Ogden
man owning mine or ranch located
where Ii would cost him thousands of
dollars to string a single telephone
wire can put on the top OF his desk 4
radio-phone and one at the mine or
! ranch and begin operations at total
cost OF hundred or so. II a wagon
outfit be on the move OF In camp and