The evening world., 1911-02-24
WIRELESS CHATS
BY CHANDELIER
At DINNER TABLE
Expert Bilyea Hears EN- All,
and on Simplest Of
Apparatus.
HE USES NO BATTERY.
Has Caught Philadelphia on His
$50 Plant, Which Includes
a Pail of Water.
HE USES NO BATTERY.


II isn't everybody who cnn cit at his
dining table and. with a headplece tele-
phone receiver at his ears. listen 10
wireless conversations over the entire
city. That IS what ~. r. Bilyea of No.
2ii Yves, one Hundred and Forty.second
street does every day, and wireless OK
perts say he has tho most wonderful
contrivance 20 receive messages that has
been conceived. They have marvelled at
II. for its very simplicity stamps 1t an
unique. His Is the only wireless station
IN the United States. ard. in fact. the
entire world. that has no anteTias, which
translated means poles. on tho building.
for he receives al, of his messages
through the medium OF his gas chan
delier.
In his coy fiat Mr.. Bilyea nightly
listens 10 tho messages that are being
transmitted from the land stations here
about TO vessels as they reach Sandy
Hook. And he devised his own mp
paratus and installed Il Mt . cost OF
about $50.
operates Wftnout 6atteVy.
Probably the most wonderful feature
In connection with his device In that
II is operated Without a battery. some-
thing no other station can boast. Mr..
Bilyea gets his wireless waves through
a ground wire running from the chan
delier to his kitchen sink and placed
in an ordinary pail OF water. The wire
has a copper plate at the bottom OF the
pail and furnishes waves sufficient 20
make all message plainly distinct.
Thin arrangement" said Mr.. Bllyea
to an Evening World reporter to-day
as he proudly but modsstly described
his invention. enables me to obtain
wireless waves as strong AZ any pro-
fessional station from which I have 70.
ccived messages"
MIR. Bilyea, who 10 an expert teleG-
rspher and electrician ana has always
taken an interest in wireless teleR-
rsphy. says that he received his first
idea OF installing such . plant through
watching the erection OF anterias on an
Office building by the wireless company.
No Outside Wire.
"I was under the Impression them"
Feta Nv Nfhat ~ sOk -
all necessary. and through doing away
with them the plants could be made
much cheaper. for the framework OF tho
anterlas could DO dispensed with, as
well as all the outside wiring. In my
station there IL not an outside wire.
and It is rather remarkable. Is II not.
that In a Harlem fiat l can sit any time
and hear what IL going on In tho out
side worid7
We'll. ] tries experimenting n at
tached wires to my chandelier In nv
dining room. / ran the wires TO the
tuner. from the tuner to the condenser
and from tho condenser to the detector
and then to the ground-the wire run-
ming to the water bucket"
NJ. Bilyea impaired tho information.
too. hat he is at work on something
that. II II prove successful. will revo-
iutionize the reception OF wireless mes
sages. Now the operator must sit with
receiver at his ears and take the sparks
IN that way. Mr.. Bilyea believes that
the wireless MESA ses can be made to
operate Morse telegraph receivers and
10 experimenting to that end.
~Whils ! am getting results he said.
''stil there Is not enough yet for me
70 maxi any definite prediction Of the
feasibility Of that"
Has Caught Philadelphia.
Mr.. Bilyea annot send MESA yes from
his station. for tho reason that the
spark would ignite the gas throughout
the house. as no uses the pipes as the
conductor for his station. But he enjoys
sitting In h!s dining room every night
and hearing the messages being sent
70 sea. While conversing with The
Evening World reporter he heard the
weather forecast being sent 10 a ship
on Sandy Hook.
II have often heard Philadelphia talk
ing" he said. but ! have not tried for
long distance. For messages going be-
tween the city and Sandy Hook | use
telephone receivers OF 100 ohms, while
wi.h receivers OF 1000 ohms ! can hear
great distances.
ION lection night ] heard the wire.
lass company send out a message tha,
70 would furnish election returns TO all
ships and all land stations. hat was
good enough for me. so instead of going
downtown ! sat in my rocking chair,
ANAlI tue ANkAlAH anu b+aAA2int'N RH'A
10 my wife,
Il heard the wireless MESSAGE being
sent 20 an incoming snip that It had
been discovered that Dorothy Arno!d
had pawned her jewolry IN Boston. OF
course, private messages are not re-
corded by me. but hCar them all.
There are several mateur wireless
operators in this city. and ] want 70
caution DR.. Hudson (cal u. R.) or
Riverside Drive. also j.. X in one
hundred and Forty-hfth street and j. +.
90 be careful what they say, for my
chandelier is recording everything they
ALI about.
Hears Checker Players.
"J. X and j. f. play a very good
game OF checkers every night by means
OF Wireless. ! do not know whore their
stations are, but ] take n that they ar,
az widely separated points in the city
Playing checkers by wireless IL some,
thing novel. and II IL done by numbering
the checkers. | hear them say Jump
and tell each play. Just Us II the boart