The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-01-25

lttkeS, Aitnougn tne American navy wa,
the first to utilize wireless telephony, /
since has been installed on many Of thl
ships of the italian Navy, while the nav.
of Great Britain is following the SAM
course with all possible speed.
What Wireless Telephony Has Done
Already, from the station which til,
De Forest people Installed at the
top Of the Elffel Tower in Paris, test.
have been made which carried the hu,
man voice clear and distinct to beyont
Marseilles, 600 miles away. In this rountrs
successful tests, have been made for q
distance Of $50 miles, but when tho new
station is completed in the 1ifty-second
story OF the huge Metropolitan Life
campanile in this city, It is confidently
expected by the wireless telephone ex-
perts that they can project the voice
much further than at the Paris tests. In
fact, the inventor. de Forest, has do
ciared that within short time he will be
able to send messages between those two
greatest stations so that the voice spoken
in New York may be distinctly and inn
mediately heard in Paris.
When one considers that thirty years
ago the present wire telephone system
was laughed at as being nothing moro
than a clever toy. and that Prof. Alex
ander Graham Reil nearly wore his heart
and soul out trying 10 get the small
sum OF money needed TO construct his
small test line for thrce rifles from Boston
to Somerville the suggestion Of wireless
talking from New York to Paris Ia not
to be considered as a smile-provolSing
proposition
In establishing It's system OF wireless
telephony It already has been announced
by the Great Lakes Radio Telephone Conn
pany, of Cleveland, which controls the ne
Forest system for the territory in question,
that It will work in conjunction with all tho
existing wire telephone systems. whether
Rell or Independent. BY a simple con-
trivance the wire phone system can be
connected with the wireless system at
any OF the latter's central stations 30
that q person located at regular long
distance telephone In Now York, for in-
stance, can be connected through a wire
less station at Cleveland and hold con-
rcrsations with business associate trav-
cling as passenger on a steamer out
in the middle Of Lake Erie.
Each central wireless station viii have
It's apparatus attuned to a certain mum.
her OF vibrations on the principle OF a
tuning fork. The attuning Of an in
strument can be changed by switch.
Just as the switchboard OF a central wire
station can he regulated by the insertion
OF r'ugs In this way when Lake
steamer. for instance, desires to talk with
Cleveland. It's operator will throw the
switch to tho number of vibrations called
FOR ny Cleveland. When the wire instrli-
ment on the steamer is in reposc. 1t will
drop baclS to n certain specific number oi
vibrations 20 that 1t can be reached nv
any central station calling its number,
or. by means Of an Aerephone automatic
signalling device. can he reached by any
station sending out storm signals in dark
ness or fog. In this way each instru-
ment can he so regulated that It can
either take up general calls from anv
direction or only specific calls for Us
own number, as might be desired.
No Franchises Are Required.
One OF the advantages Of tho wireless
telephone is that It does not require 4
franchise right to operate or right Of
way from any government. state or mum
icipalIty. It talks through the air ana d
the only known method of vocal inter.
ship communication or OF talking from
ship to shore. In case Of fog or storm
the sound Of the human voice. projected
by this means. IS as clear and distinct q
at ary other time, and the invention Il
therefore peculiarly adapted for safet,
signals ana life-saving service. A distinc
advantage Of the wireless phone over tht
wire phone Is that the buzz Of the wire Al
ways Is absent. AS any ships ofhcsi
can talk by wireless phone as readil!
as by wire phone on shore, all expens
Of an expert operator IS eliminated an
the apparatus Is placed within the reacl
Of the most modest boat afoat.
The antennae wires OF the apparatu
are strung to the masthead of the shin b,