The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-22


We shall use ono single wire as n
Su'"e line Tor wireless messages THAT
single wire holds the messages from
going OF into the surrounding air
instead Of TWO wires being required
Tor ono talk. Is now, n single wire
with silent earth connections can he
! used for multiplicity ut talks"
But why arc you giving away pat
en,s which would assure YOU "a great
! ioriunc?" | asked.
! Being an army Officer. : shall re-
reivc salary rs long rs | live. and
! the government will bury me when !
| die. shall always have enough I
am bachelor. ana the only other
comfortahlv upon the old homcstcau
| farm at Dryden, Mich. where was
born. forty-tivc years ago. 1t is upon
the same farm which my grandmother
took M in 1885, before Michigan was
n state
"iieng an army officer, now did YOU
cume to devote yourself Ia Inventions
so vitality related 10 commerce.
An appointment to the Military
Academy took me away from MIGHT gan
when l was eighteen said Major
Snuicr. Upon graduating; from West
Point entered the ARTILLERY. from
which | was detailed tc Johns Hopkins
| University for post graduate studies. in
physics, mathematics and chemistry.
which. in 1899. earned me the degree
Of doctor OF philosopny. Al hopkins |
studied in The laboratory pf She late
| Professor Rowland. tho inventor Of thu
mnltipicN telegraph. and from him I
nhibcd the ideas which have now
eliminated in the multiplcx telephone
| The Signal Corps OF the army nnViui;
( charge OF the development ui the
military telegraph and telephone lines
! ] was transferred TO thas branch OF
the service.
| u was lieutenant colorcl ana chief
signal officer Of volunteers during The
! Sltinish War. ,nd became Il cap.ain Of
| regulars in 1901. thcn a maior in 1903.
| am now assistant chicc sjsnal cheer
of the army.
! You have also made researches in
military acronuuties
Yes. The smithsonian Institution
has lately reprinted a paper en- the sub
| iect which read before Tho american
| society Of Mechanical Engineers
Asked fol 81 detailed explanation of
his multiplcN telephone system. Ma jor
suuier gave ne nata too technical to
be quoted ~ ?ull, but which | will
tanspoSe into popular language with
IN tie comprehension Of the popular
mind some Of his comments on the
various details or the invention viii.
however. quote.
In the first place. he desires mo tn
make il clear that nc has invcntcl no
apparat us--hla only combined the wire
telephone apparatus aud wireless tcle
graph apparatus already on the market
and Joined these 10 the won lcrfu! his
frequency generator" also the product
Of another inventor.
10 the sun in Eight Minutes.
The rotor OF this generator revolvc.
10000 times per minute he explained
and is one foot in diameter. It's sreet
Is so Ercat that, If used as a wheel, 81
would roll is far as from here IL
Europe in four hours"
The electric vibrations which thi:
machine sends ont along the wires vii
travel as fast as light. They will pass
around .he earth seen times in 4 Gin
gle second II the generator were
connected by wire TO the sun, any one
OF these vibrations or waves would
pass from Major squicrs laboratory
TO that orb Of day In cigh. minutes.
4 Now, in ordinary telephony much
slower electric vibrations must Ia
used, The new generator which ths
major has Installed is the only type
! which has ever supplied vibrations OF
such high frequency TO telephone CT
telegraph wires. Through orr phones
OF commerce the electric vibrations
which carry our conversation have 4
frequency of only 500 To 100 per sec.
ond. They are MI audible to the
human ear, which can hear vibrations
coming not slower than about iS per
second ana not faster than from ! :, 900
10 26n0 Der second. But tho Vibrations
employed in Major Squicr's invention
a'c much faster than tho most acute
car rsn perceive although The mes
Usage which they garry ale made aud.