Arizona republican., 1909-07-08
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 | New York, July 1.-(Special Core
 spOndence of The Republican. )-Some
 four thousand feet of copper wire.
 forming the antenna for the Radio Telephone company, was strung from the fiftieth story of the Metropolitan
 Life building this morning and with l in a short time the newest de Forest
 system of wireless telephony and I telegraphy will be opened commer cially as a long distance factor in wireless Communication between the ! principal cities on the Atlantic coast. ! The first message will be sent be- 1 tween the Metropolitan tower station | and tae highest point in Philadelphia,
 which has been secured for the cen
 tral station in the Quaker City. The | installation of the station in the Metropolitan Life tower is the first
 definite step in the widely heralded | talk-via wireless, New York to Paris. The. station on the Metropolitan
 tower is on the fiftieth floor, roo feet above the sidewalk and the an- | tenna extends, umbrella shaped, to the Fourth Avenue roof of the build ! ing, from which the leading wires pass into the office of the company on the ninth floor. The work of erecting the antenHa,- which is the largest in the world except the one controlled by the same company on the Eiffel tower in Paris, was begun
 in the storm Friday night. when two wires were sent alOft during the progress of the disturbed elements. While the workmen were busy making fast these two wires, and the wind was whistIing its most strident
 tune, an. interesting experiment was made from the top of the swaying
 campanile that showed the marvellous
 cutting up of the air currents in the
 vicinity of the apex of the tall tow
 CT. A score of toy balloons were ] liberated and at once were horne
 away to leeward with the speed of so many frightened gulls. For prob ! ably a hundred yards they remained together, after which one after an l other became separated, halted in flight, circled for a moment around the antenna wires and then, aPpar- ] ently in the teeth of the fifty mile
 gale, drifted back to the tower. around which they were driven like
 so many swallows for nearly half an
 hour. At length, one by one, they
 were caught in eddy which bore them far away from the disturbed air cur rents and drifted down the wind to
 become lost in the smother to lee ward.
 Meanwhile, the lightning played around the. tower and the rain fell in torrents. but the nnemen contin- ued their labors despite the frequent flashes of light, until the wires were secured and the swaying antenna was in place. Tonight the batteries-and the paraphernalia will be connected and communication will be begun be- tween New York, Philadelphia. and the already perfected system on the Great Lakes.
 The story of wireless is like page from fairy tale Scarcely more than a decade has drifted into history since wireless telegraphy was given to a waiting world. During that period
 many scientists have, devoted their lives to the. work of developing the art of wireless. That little has been accomplished by the majority of these workers is a patent fact. Indeed, with the exception of Dr. Lee de Forest and a few co-workers in his laboratory, absolutely nothing of real value has been evolved. Dr. de Tor est has invented a wireless telephone. Radio the scientist calls it, and within the short space of two years it has become a commercial system on the Great Lakes, as well as a fac tor in the navies of three great na- tiops.
 Lieutenants Colin and Jeaunce of the French navy, working in con- junction with Dr. de Forest in the development of Radio telephony, have reported most satisfactory results and have talked a distance of one hun dred miles, between the cruiser Condo and the arsenal at Toulon.
 Ultimate success in wireless tele- phony by the Radio system is assur- ed by the results already obtained. These results are not mere chance but the effects from causes that are known to the veriest tyro in the field of wireless science. The discovery was made some two years ago that wireless telegraph message was ac- cOmpanied under certain conditions by a peculiar yet distinctive buzzing sound. There had been theories a. plenty before this time. many of which had been worked out mathe- matically by pr. de Forest, John Stone and others. Many experiments had been made with induction tele- phones without success at any dis tance beyond possibly one mile, and to attain even this result with an in duetion phone was difficult, unre- liable and entailed the use of cum bersome apparatus. Dr. de Forest. catching the distinctive hum of the antenna wires, found the solution, and he at once began experimenting on the development of mtelligible sound through the waves of ether. The principle he already knew. but to evolve a practical apparatus from the wealth of theoretical Knowledge has been theawork Of many months in his assisted by experts of known standing on both sides of the western osean.
 There is more catarrh in this section )f the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few