Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-28
WIRELESS LETTERS
SOON A REALITY
Major Squier Says Business by
Mail Will Give Way to
Electricity.

CHICAGO, June 2s.-In the course OF
his paper on his invention, given free
10 the world, whereby 1t has become
possible TO send many simultaneous
messages by telephone and telegraph
along the same wires, Major George
o. Squier today made predictions be-
fore the twenty eighth annual conven-
ton of the American Institute of Elec-
trical Engineers, gathered at Chicago,
about the combined ethereal radia-
tons along wires. The impulses of
the m~ultiplex telephone and telegraph
are not sent through the metal of the
wires. but along their surfaces, which
serves merely as guides-as "a longi-
tudinal strip of the ether" Major
| Squier says:
THE distortion Of speech which Is
an inherent feature of telephony over
wires should be much less, If not prac-
tically absent, when we more and more
withdraw the phenomena from the
metal of the wire and confine them to
a longitudinal strip of the ether which
forms the region between the two wires
Of a metallic circuit.
1.-THE ohmic resistance of the wire as
shown can be made to play a compare
lively unimportant part in the trans
mission of speech, and the more the
phenomena are of the ether, instead
of that of metallic conduction, the
more perfectly will tho modified cleo
trio waves, which are the vehicle for
transmitting the speech, be delivered
at the receiving point without distor-
ton.
THE experiments described should
not be interpreted as in any way indi-
eating limitations to Autobiography
and telephony in the future. for theiS
present rapid development gives justi-
fication for great prospect for the
future. It 10 rather considered that the
whole system Of INSTRUMENTATION,
including both wire methods and wire
less methods, will grow apace, and as
each advance is made in either OF these
1t will create new demands and stand
ards for still further development. We
need more wireless t~elegraphy every
where, and not less do we need more
wire telegraphy and telephony every
where, and. again. more submarine
cables.
THE number Of submarine cables
connecting Europe with America could
be increased many times and all Of
them kept fully occupied, provided the
traffic were properly classified to enable
some of the enormou business which is
now carried or by mail to be trans
ferred to the quicker and more efficient
cablegram letter. That time will surely
come when the methods of electrical
intercommunication will have been so
developed and multiplied that the peo-
pie of the different countries of the
world may ecome real neighbors.''
A revolution in the n;ethod of rams
hitting sin ultancoIj wireless dis
patches over land. beth with the hui
man voice and by the Morse code. by
means of his metallic guide, is thus
indicated:
THE value of a metallic wire guide
for the energy of the electric waves is
strikingly shown In the experiments I
have described, in that it offers an eff
cient directive wireless system which
confines the ether disturbances to
closely bounded regions. and thus
offers a ready solution to the serious
problems of interference between mes
sages which of necessity have to be
made IN wireless operations through
space"