Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-07
Arctic Explorer Talks Over the
Wireless Telephone In CIHCIR-
natl Says Tie Could Have
Talked from the North Pole
to Alaska.

MY work would have been simpli-
fed because l could have talked from
North Latitude Ninety to Alaska or
Spitzbergen, If l had had with me an
equipment of wireless telephones as
they have been lately developed by
A. Frederick Collins" said DR.. Fred
erick A. Cook, the discoverer of the
North Pole, after talking over Collins
wireless telephone instruments In the
Hotel Sinton, Cincinnati, O., on Octo.
Der 10th. 1909. "We could have com.
municated with Alaska by means of
relay stations placed on the Ice at
points Intervening. l think the devel.
opment of wireless telephones is
something beyond the dreams of
dreamers, and 1t is my opinion that
Arctic explorers Will take advantage of
this new invention in the future"
DR.. Cook also said that If the strides
OF wireless kept up the seven-league
pace of the past five years, It would
be possible to talk around the world
before ten years passed. When both
the Cook and Peary Expeditions were
. fitted out, wireless telephony was not
'as well known as 1t is at present. but
scientists all hold that no future expe.
dition to the North Pole will be com.
plete without the wireless telephone,
Dispensing With Unnecessary
Apparatus.
Elimination of appliances marks the
different periods in the evolution Of
communication. All great Inventions
are simple and must necessarily be sim
pie TO be OF general value. Nowadavs
10 convey message, neither runner.
morse, Doat train, water nor earth Is
necessary; at first two wires We're
used, one to convey electric current
and one to return 1t, and one wire was
then eliminated, 1t being discovered
two messages each way could be sent
over the same wire then Marconi and
Collins showed that no wires at all
were needed. And now the scientists
maintain that all this time messages
had been conveyed by vibration and
4 that the ether was the medium of the
! vibration, wires serving only as n
guide. Now all media has been elimi-
1ated and the ether alone Is used.
VIBRATION.
i sympathy" is all about us. The
&nan who radiates goodwill draws to
he surface the goodwill of all those
be meets; sing the note "a" into a
plano and the A string alone responds.
note sounding to the sky will be an
Bwered In the same key. There is
hpothing ocult about lit is simply one
E<bf the rigid laws of nature, and A.
Frederick Collins has had the ingenuity
build the instruments applying this
wv, and for this reason is able to
Fansmit articulate sound over any dis
ance and with perfect selectivity.
"a Newspapers record the formation
4 ten new subsidiary companies
different parts of the United States
~ the Collins wireless telephone COM
pany, the parent concern promulgat-
Ping the wireless telephone to make it
eventually the best known servant in
social, commercial and industrial fields.
Man is social animal and there is
always a craving to draw nearer to
his fellow-men. London is now but
four days from New York, and we can
communicate with the Philippines
more quickly than George Washington
could cross the Delaware. We are re-
stricted to earth in our communica-
tions or communion with friends.
But for the present there is no worry
about communicating with Mars or
Venus or any of the other planets,
every effort being belt to draw the
men of every cline together by a
means of instantaneous communica-
ton, the wireless telephone operating
through the other. Commentators in
sist that there is tremendous uplift
for mankind in the practical operations
of wireless communication; that 1t is
not founded on anything sordid or ma
terial but is a conception of advanced
intellectually and that Its study and