The Detroit times., 1909-04-30
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WIRELESS STATION
Great Lakes Radio Telephone Co. F.
tablishes Plant Here and City
May Be Systems Headquarters.


Unbeknown to petroiters. move
ment has been quietly going forward
to make this city the center OF what
unquestionably Is destined to be one
Of the. greatest OF commercial enter
prises OF the future. the Great Lakes
Radio Telephone Co. In any event,
Detroit will be one of big chain OF
wireless telephone stations encircling
the lakes. and II plans now on foot 60
through. the headquarters and central
station OF the system WIN also be To-
Gated here.
The company has leased piece OF
property from the Hammond estate
at the foot of the West Grand Boule-
ward and here win be erected the tall
est structure In Detroit. 360-foot
steel tower. This will be the Detroit
station of the wireless system. The
steel for the structure Is expected
next week and the tower will be In
place by uJne 1. At the bottom
of the tower the station proper will
be erected. connected with the top or
the former by a series OF aerial wires
or antennae, as they are more prop
erly known.
Within the next few months Detroit
will be In touch by wireless telephone.
and telegraph. for both are included
In the system, with at least dozen
other stations on the Great Lakes. Sta
tions are already completed at Chi
cago. Milwaukee. Toledo. Cleveland
and the 500. Others are to be in
stalled at Duluth. Ashland, Benton
Harbor, Manistee, Mackinaw City, Al
pcna. Cheboygan. Port Huron, San
dusky. Lorain. Erie. Dun<irk, Buffalo
and Ashtabula. Contracts have al
ready been closed with about SO boats
One of the first lines to sign up was
the Indiana Steamship Co.. operating
on Lake Michigan Its steamers, the
United States and the Theodore Roose-
welt, are now being equipped, and the!
Great Lakes Radio Co. will actually
open up commercial business In the
lake district May 5, when the United
States makes her maiden trip from
Manitowoc to Chicago. The steamer
with all the stations now equipped.
The time Is not Tar distant when
one will be able to sit In ones library
on board steamship In the middle OF
Lake Huron or Lake Michigan. And,
this is only one Of the wide variety
OF uses to which the wireless telephone
may be put when the system u fully
developed. 1t Is the rompany's inten-
ton to establish later on an amuse-
ment and news bureau device ip con-
nection with the Detroit station. With
this 1t will be possible for patrons to
sit in their homes and enjoy O concert
In the Detroit opera house, for exam
pie, as though one were actually in
the audience
Early in 1906 the scientific world
was startled by the wonderful discov-
cries OF DR.. Lee DeForest, who for six
years, had been closely identified with
the wireless telegraph field, with the
result that his type Of apparatus was
adopted by the United States govern
ment. His new discoveries had to do
with the wireless telephone, and In
1907 he demonstrated that 1t was prac,
tieai.- The Radio Telephone Co. was
organized for the purpose OF exploiting
1t and that company. with hea6Quar.
tiers In Newark, N. j.. now controls the
entire western hemisphere, operating
under an exclusive license granted by
DR.. De Forest to use all of his patents,
past, present and all to be issued in
the next 10 years. To develop the
wireless telephone commercially SUBJ
sidiary companies are being organized
in various section Of the country.
Five are already established and
the Great Lakes Radio Telephone Co.
is one OF them.