Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-26

saws these very things will be done.
The IeForrest wireless telephones
were installed upon the ba'tieships
of the Atlantic fleet before the fleet
started Gu its memorable cruise
around the world. This system was
purely experimental. but il worked
with sreat success. II is stated. now
.y.r. that VIVA, has been doEe by
the system now in use tn III" battle
ships is only earnest Ct what VIII
be done with the improvements when
have been made during the fourteen
months that have passed since 'he
sailing OF the fleet.
The new system IS what is known
as the slarklcss. Inventor DeForreS'
having succeeded in eliminating IN
both his telegraph and telephone sys-
TENS the noisy spark nuisance mat
handicapped the earlier wireless cper-
ations. The "quadrupleX' apparatus
has been introduced. too. making
possible fer four persons 10 talk ara
receive at the same Tina flom one
station.
/ Mr. Carman SAYS that the DeFor-
rest Inventions have also removed the
.cattering'' difficulty. Ry system
OF tuning" each station has its own
partiCuiar key. and when can
goes forth in that key no other
can hear the CAN or receive the MIS-
sage. The pertecting of this feature
is the lc.1cest step made by tae wire
less invent, rs since the idea or Send-
ing a message through the air With
out wires first materialiZed.
From Inventor DeForrest
DIR Lee DeForrest. the inventor CT
the radio-telephOne, in an a1ter-din:
ncr speech In New York last week.
said:
Never until this year nave ! had
tn. proper backing. And up to THIS
year | can also say that the deVeI-
opments in the wireless art have been
/ almost rudimentary What the future
; OF il will be. neither | nor any one
! else can foreteil. At present | am
! working on the telephone. the teie'
graph. and ship warning devices. The
! possibilities of the telephone in this
| latter department are almost iimitiess
and | confidently predict that within
! the next five years every ship q!
! certain size that goes to the sea VIII
he equipped with the w'Te'ess 'eie'
phone.
Il have succeeded in combining the
wireless telegraph and Telephone IN
one instrument. The radiO-tcicphOn"
! also has a useful field on land prin'
cipallv in tollline work. in connecting
small towns and distant cities. as
| they are connected today by trunk
a, wires.
: 4 look forward to the day when
| by this means the opera may be
| brought into every home. Some DAY
the news and even advertising will
he sent on; to che public over the
| wireless Telephone.
| &c! wani to tell you also of my new
telegraph stern ! t"Cam" Corvlnc"d
that further progress along N" pres
ent lines was q hopeless dream. the
possitslitv Of interference with mes
sagcs was TOO great In NV neH Sys
TEN tn. timing possibilities ar" lin
itiess. Fur hrrmorc. II - no'S"pSS'
anc II can b. upcra'"l nj much
Noacr voltage than ih.. present sNs,
ten. The speed nv which a spark
transmittsr can /" operated cannot
exceed forty words q minute
Il expect 10 Attain si'""d Of '"
0,. words an hour There H. no Gucs
ton ut rha; tho pubI'C "an easily
be INDUCED to Commuuicai" 10y "ir"
instead Of ~ mai u must u" don"
however. AT greatly r"iuced cost. and
this Is no. possible for tho wire s's
tens. Some da, also .oU will 80"
4 wireless systsm inisll"d on traia'
hN which one locomotive vii h" warn
Cd Of tho approach ~ ano'h~r Thi
yin proven; all accidents which ha "
nv totav when 'hc block > st"ns