Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-16
LOS ANGELES IS
FIRST IN FIELD
GETS PIONEER STATION FOR
WIRELESS TELEPHONY
SITE FOR AERIALs WILL BE Sc
LEcTED AT ONCE
Chief Electrician Of New York Com.
pany VIII Establish Headquarters
for Control Of Western
Business


having the first long distance wireless
telephone station in the world, and
plans for the erection Of the aerials
are now under way. The work of con-
struction will begin this week.
william Dubilier, chief electrician OF
the A. f. Collins Wireless Telephone
company of New York, arrived in Los
Angeles yesterday for the purpose OF
selecting sites for the erection OF
aerials and establishing headquarters
in Los Angeles for a subsidiary conn
pany, which will control wireless tele-
phony west of Chicago.
Mr.. Dubilier, who Is registered at the
Hollenbeck, arrived direct from the Chi
cago electrical exhibition, where short
distance messages were sent without
the use of wires, but in Los Angeles
the first long distance demonstration
will be given as soon as the proper
sites are selected and the aerials con-
structed.
Wireless telephony has been proved
to be no longer a theory, and practical
demonstrations have been given sue
cessfully in New York and Philadel-
phia.
The first time that the public ever
saw the wireless telephone In operation
was at the electrical exhibition in Mad
ison Square garden, New York, in No
vember OF last year, when the public
was allowed to use the phones.
Another demonstration was given In
Chicago, and after the exhibition con
tracts were made for the installing OF
wireless telephone machines along the
great lakes for a radius of 100 miles.
VIII Give Demonstration
Mr.. Dubilier will be a guest tonight
at the banquet of the Engineers and
Architects association at the Hollen-
beck, and will give practical demon
stration of short distance messages
without the use of wires
According to Mr.. Dubilier the prir1-
ciple of wireless telephony is similar to
that of wireless telegraphy, and he
claims that anything possible by Wire
less telegraphy can be accomplished by
the wireless telephone.
The strongest feature of the new
telephone is said to be the secrecy tnat
can be maintained, and it will be I'M
possible for amateurs, or anyone else,
to pick up telephone messages, as has
been done under the Marconi system
One of the greatest achievements OF
the new system will be its use III
aeronautics, which has been success
fully demonstrated at Newark, N. J.. !.
Prof Twining of Polytechnic high
school is greatly interested In the rapid
strides made in wireless telephony and
has invited Mr.. Dobilier to lecture and
give a demonstration at the school. He
also has offered him the use of the
school apparatus during his stay IN
Los Angeles.
Mr.. Collins, the inventor of the sys-
tenn, who has been making study. OF
II since 1899, will arrive in Los An
eeles within a month to take personal
charge of the installation of telephones
and by the time of his arrival all pre-
liminary construction work will be
finished and ready for immediate use.
Harnessing the Ether
The system consists of an apparatus
for generating continuous oscillations
and an instrument for .reconverting the
oscillations into audible and art1culate
speech. The Collins idea is to harness
the energy-carrying capacity OF tne
ether so that speech can be heard al
most any distance, and the Collins arc
oscillator is patented to carry speech a
distance of 500 miles.
The one great fault in wireless teleg-
raphy has been found to be the nom
working of the system on account OF
damp oscillations, but the new metnou
used in telephony is an arc light, winch
produces dry oscillations that are con-
tinuous. The instrument invented by
Mr.. Collins produces 100000 waves a
second, and these have no resistance
as they are fifteen trillion times lighter
than the air and travel at the rate OF
10000 miles second.
The average lay mind does not COM
prehend the working of the system,
but the method Is simple and the re-
ceiver and transmitter are similar to
those used now in home telephones.
The receiver, when raised after the
number has been pressed, emits tune
which is caught only by the telephone
the number of which was designated,
and in this manner absolute secrecy is
maintained and, it is claimed, the lines
cannot be crossed.
Los Angeles the First
Although practical demonstrations
have been given privately for distances
of more than 100 miles, the Collins firm
has only just began to install the
phones for commercial purposes, and
Los Angeles persons will have the first
opportunity of witnessing the long dls-
lance system In use.
Mr.. Dubilier has Iectured in the leadl
ing colleges and schools of science in
the United States, and has been expert
ciated with Mr.. Collins in his expert
mental work since he was Is years old.
He thinks Los Angeles a favorable
place for the western headquarters. but
will not remain here permanently, as
he will go to London after the service
has been started In Southern Cali
fornia.