The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-07-23

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lie fully appreciate the possibilities
and recognize the necessity for the
installation of wireless apparatus as
safeguard to life and property.
The press of the entire world re-
cognized the efficiency and necessity
of wireless method of communica-
ftion and the demand of an aroused
public opinion resulted in the intro
ductiOn in congress of bill making
compulsory the installation of wire
less apparatus on all passenger
carrying craft sailing 100 miles or
more from shore. Although this bill
has not been placed on our statute
books, the time will unquestiOnably
into a law.
1t often happens that public cal
amity is the basis for great popular
upheaval and it is brought to a USE
full account. The Republic disaster
focused the attention of the world
on the possibilities and necessity for
wireless methods of communication.
1t required the appalling loss of life
at the IrOquois fire in Chicago to
compel proper safety appliances for
public buildings. The Slocum dis
aster in which over one thousand
lives We're lost seemed necessary to
arouse public sentiment and compel
the providing of adequate life pre-
servers on passenger craft.
We are entering what the histor-
ians of the future will term the
wireless age" Wireless methods
of communication have been demon
strated to be practical. All that re-
mains now is for its universal in
stallation to become as popular and
profitable as the wire systems of to-
day
To understand the fundamental
principles involved in the transmits
sion of intelligence without connect
ing wires, we are confronted at the
very outset with the fact that there
space which, speaking generally. acts
as a conductor for electrical impulse,
just as copper wire acts as a con-
ductor for the wire message.
In short, the ether is Il perfect
and instantaneous conductor of cleo
trical impulse. 1t bears practically
the same relation to the Wireless
Telephone and Wireless Telegraph
that the copper wire does to the wire
telephone and wire telegraph.
Speech is the forming of very
rapid, complex and ever-varying Sc
ries of vibrations in the air. and
their measurement by the nerves of
the ear. Owing to the resistance of
the atmosphere. these vibrations
grow weaker and at last disappear
as we get farther from the source
of disturbance. Telephony is the art
OF changing these vibrations into
vibrations of ether whose lesser re- |
sistance enables them to be carried |
to great distances, to be changed |
back into air vibrations again; as
only the air vibrations can be meas
ured by the ear. In the wireless !
telephone the air waves are trans /
lated into the vibration of an cleo
trical disturbance which oscillates
the ether. AS in the wire telegraph, |
the wire telephone and many other
successful inventions the public may .
not know how it works-but that it
does work For technical descrip-
ton read footnote.
New Type Wireless Telegraph.
Realizing the confines of the old
system of wireless telegraphy. the
Radio company engineers have in
vented new sparkless type of APP
paratus to be used supplementary to
Or in conjunction with the Radio
telephone. and it is planned TO carry
On a general inland ana coast tele-
graph business at rates which should
place the new service within the
reach of all.
Such a service becomes absolutely
feasible with the advent of the new
Radio system. Close tuning TO al
most infinite variations is made prac-
icable, the dangers present where
spark-gap apparatus is used are
the size and cost Of
equipment is reduced, and the vari-
JUS other Objectionable features of
he old system. including noise and
liability TO interference. are done
away with, while the speed attain
tble is very high. probably exceeding
10000 words an hour. in the opin-
on of experts.
This new system of wireless tele