The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-08-23
WcNDEROUS ~, ISIS PLAN
NED TO CIRCLE THE GLOBE
BY Frederick Haskin

me united states, England an
, France-three great nations-each ]
planning a world-girdling wireless
system. This fact, together with tn
/. constant stream of new invention
which is flowing out of +S2 .Ei.:ds 0
the wireless inver ,ors of TIE world
emphasizes the great progress tina
has been made in wireless communi
cation within few years. Anothe
illustration of this progress is thu
development of laws for the regulat
ion and control of the wireless tele
graph. Just now congress is consider
ing proposed laws to require all
ocean-goingvessels to carry at least
two wireless operators and to pre-
vent amateurs from interfering with
the transmission of important mes
sages 1t is possible that law cover.
ing the whole subject in the light OF
the latest experience will be passed
before the national law makers ad-
journ.
Perhaps more wonderful even than
the wireless telegraph is the wireless
telephone. For years this instrument
has been in it's experimental stage,
but now it is becoming a practical
|ity. A conversation between two
men over four hundred miles apart
has been carried on successfully. The
navy department has adopted it after
rigid tests. The condition of the test
was that it should be possible to
carry on an uninterrupted conversat-
ion for half an hour at a distance of
twenty miles. The wireless telephone
far exceeded these requirements. 1t
is believed now to be a certainty that
the wireless telephone will serve in
its field as we'll as the wireless tele-
graph covers it's ground
Even the wirless telegraph has been
used for the transmission of music,
making it telephone for the time
being. A station operator in Jamaica
has a monograph which he attaches
to telephone transmitter rugged up
with the wireless outfit, and through
this the wireless operators on the
ships bound through Windward Pass
age may listen to the strains of God
Save the King, or Yankee Doodle, F."
on the nationality of the
ship operator.
Still more remarkable is the adj
vance in the use of wireless for the
control of distant machinery. The |
British government recently conduct
ed some experiments with big sub
marine boat. The crew remained in
the vessel, but the man who was to
control it stayed on a cruiser. BY
pressing this key and that, the oper-
ator on the cruiser was able to make
LuC uloCduI SuUudiluS ulFc VI COuc
to the surface, move forward or aft,
turn to port or to starboard, and in
short do all the things that the men
IN the boat itself might make it do.
After the submarine had been. put
through its PAGES in this way, the
crew was taken aboard the cruiser,
md the manless- submarine was put
through all the PAGES again. The
British government is keeping its sec
'et carefully, yet others are accomp-
ishing the same ends, and it is safe
% predict that before long wireless
operated torpedoes, flying machines,
Ind other engines of war will be pos
'ible. Think what war would be if
t should come when a wireless,
nanless flying machine could be dis
patched against an enemy, carrying a
huge charge of high explosives which
'ould be dropped by wireless actual
on and exploded in the same way
'ver the heads of an army!
Even eclipsing these things is the
progress that has has been made in
the same Hertzian waves,
which constitute the fundamental
principle of wireless telegraphy, for
overcoming gravity. A New Jersey
inventor says he is able, with a. mec-
lanism he has devised, SO to inten-
lily these waves that they will over
ONE the pull of gravity. He claims {
o be able to make various objects of !
considerable weight float around in I
he air as a fish floats in the water. !
To the scientist who has studied /
ii the possibilities of wireless it ,
GEMS possible that the time yet will ,
ONE when not only may man control
eating airships from the central sta ,
ion. but when the power that actual ,
8 those crafts may itself be COM ;
to them from such sta ,
ions.
Almost as much progress has been
lade in the field of practical utili-