The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-15
Operators Enabled to Send
Tunes by Autobiography.
Messages Can Be Sent, No Matter
What the interference of Big and
Powerful Plants Which May
Sc Near.

London.-Remarkab experiments
with a variety of wireless telegraphy
perfected by Baron Won Lepel have
been conducted between Slough, Paris
and Brussels. They included the trans
mission of messages and CT the mel
ody of the national anthem.
In a low-lying meadow at Slough,
within sight of Windsor castle, Is
wooden hut thanked by tall mast and
a tangle of wires. A man who used to
be a yeoman signaller In the royal
navy sits in that hut tapping wireless
messages to Paris, Brussels and Bruins
wick, North Germany Occasionally.
when his instrument Is not tuned ex-
actly to its own proper pitch. he hears
something like brass band roaring
in his ears, which means that the Brit
1sh Admiralty is sending secret code
messages to battleships cruising In
the North sea or the Atlantic; or he
may receive a request from Paris to
tune his instrument to another note
because the great station at the top of
the Eiffel tower is drowning all the
messages In Its vicinity.
The yeoman signaller turns ham
die, depresses another piano key. and
continues undisturbed his whispered
musical conversation with Paris or
Brussels. The new system is that of
the Anglo-German Wireless syndicate,
of which a young German, Baron Won
Lepel, is the moving spirit.
The claims made for 1t are that 1t
calls for much less power than the or
binary systems of autobiography;
that 1t is, therefore, very cheap in
stallation, and that by applying varia-
BILE musical notes to it's tune 1t can
talk in quietness for long distances,
however great be the disturbances In
the ether created by more powerful In
struments.
A message was sent TO Brussels,
who replied almost at once, adding
that Paris, with which he was In wire
less touch at the moment, had mes
sage. Inquiries were then dispatched
across the English channel and the
north of France to Paris, producing
been received and understood, but re-
luesting a clear course for an ex-
perimental message Tin English) re-
-eived as follows:
81 am sending this message by the
Lepel system of autobiography,
which may further facilitate means of
communication between London and
Paris.
Owing to the rise In the price Of
wine and general provisions Paris
restauranteurs have materially in
creased '.iIeir charges.
To-day the weather has been charm
ing.
Great interest is being manifested
by the airmen competing in the Cir
cult de rEst."
Messages can be sent on eight notes
set to true octave, and In case of in
terruption the operator can change his
note, and the receiver, by few turns
of a simple regulating screw, soon
finds the new note. The national an
them was played on the keys at
Slough. 1t elected cordial response
from Brussels of "Vive rentente cor
diale!"
Considering the shortness of the
aerial" which was only $50 feet long
and the small amount of power used,
which was only two kilowatts, the re-
suits were good for long distance
transmission.
Baron Won Lepel. fair-haired Ger
man enthusiast, is % years old. He
served for five years as a lieutenant
in the Ninth Lancers of Prussia. He
took to electric lighting work at 6