The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-06-09
1WHAT IS WIRELESS

WHAT IS WIRELESS
Webster City Herald: When you
hear the bell ring Sunday morning, it
is wireless.
When you hear the R. R. whistle.
it is wireless.
When you talk to neighbor. it is
wireless.
Your ear catches the sound waves
and you say you hear your ear being
attuned to every electric wave. Your
ear is the best receiver on earth.
Wireless has a manufactured ear.
imperfect yet and can catch only a
sound attuned to this metallic ear.
When mother calls at the foot Of
the stairs and says, John get up, or
Laura breakfast is ready, it is wire
less, but you never thought much
about it. You only wish you could
lay long time in bed, and that it
was midnight instead of eight o'clock
in the morning.
You hear the discharge of gun
down in the woods and you know the
boys are shooting rabbits and you get
your gun and join in the sport but
the report of that gun was wireless.
The discharge filled the air with a
succession of electric waves and your
ear was so attuned that it can catch
any wave that comes along and you
have wireless station in your head
Just in front of the mastoid bone, and
you have always had it. but you did
not know it.
When hubby says, that these bis
cults must have been rescued from one
of the Egyptian pyramids and his
wiley hears it. that is wireless and
very likely there will be other wire
less messages. tearing through the air
which hubby will take notice of.
And so it goes on to the end of the
chapter.
We have always practiced it but
did not know what to call it.
The transmitter or sending station
serves as the vocal cords Of the voice
and the receiving station serves as the
human ear. To reproduce in metal
the splendid mechanism of the human
voice, and the richly furnished parts
of the human ear. is now the work Of
the scientific inventors of wireless.
The machinery we now have can
do this only in part but in time per-
haps q machine can be constructed
so that even the voice and the inflec-
tion of the sender can be discerned by
the receiver of the message.
Enough is now accomplished how.
ever, to warrant going forward with
this new discovery and making good
use Of it.
Very soon the government at Wash
ington is going to build monument
two or three times as high as thu
Washington monument 80 that it ca,
send a message through the air 300
miles and reach oxr fleet or one of on
big ocean liners no matter where the,
may be.
It proposes to get up there abov,
the ordinary hum-drum of life and d
business several hundred feet abov
our heads. And the government pro
poses to compel every ship carrying
passengers on the great lake and tn
ocean. to furnish their ships will
wireless equipment and in case Of q
accident or other mishap. the shi
could call to its aid the vessels on tn
shore or on the sea and life and pro
perty might be saved.
But we have just begun to learr
When Franklin brought down elee
tricity from the air, and Morse hal
messed it and hitched it to his tell
graph wire. and college profess,
bitched it to street car, to say notl
ing of its capacity as a universal ligl
for our ZONES and places of busine
and streets, we worked with oar fe
on the ground and through visib
, agencies. We thought it needed
, we'll constructed route and that
must have visible means of suppo
or it could not be controlled, nor ma
q of use.
y But now we have cut loose and GO
t to working through new agencies al
e we are shooting through the air. tt
g shoot seems to land all right and t
persons, who is hundreds of mil
away gathers from the air the impo
q of our message.
t Nothing new about these thing
y They have been here since the da,