El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-22
NAVY ADOPTS
WIRELESS
PHONES
Gives the Experiment Rigid
Test and Is Well Satisfied
With Their Utility.
NEXT THING MAY BE
TALKS FROM TRAINS

Washington, D. c., June 22.-Three
great natiOns-the United States, Eng
land and France-each IS planning a
world girdling wireless system This
fact, together with the constant stream
the wireless operators on the
Of the minds of the wireless inventors
of the world, emphasizes the great
progress that has been made in wire
less communication within a few years.
Another illustration of this progress is
the development of laws for the regula-
ton and control of the wireless tele-
graph. Just now congress is consider
ing proposed laws to require all ocean
going vessels to carry at least two
wireless operators and to prevent ANA
tours from interfering with the trans
mission of important messages. It is
possible that a law covering the whole
subject in the light of the latest eX-
perience will be passed before the ma
tional lawmakers adjourn.
The Wireless Telephone.
Perhaps more wonderful even than
the wireless telegraph is the wireless
telephone. For years this instrument
has been in its experimental stage, but
now it is becoming a practical utility.
y conversation between two men over
400 miles apart has been carried on
successfully. The navy department has
adopted it after rigid tests. The con-
dition Of the test was that it should be
possible to carry on an uninterrupted
conversation for half an hour at a dis
lance of 20 miles. The wireless tele-
phone lar exceeded these requirements.
1t is believed now to be certainty that
the wireless telephone will serve in its
field as well as the wireless telegraph
covers its ground
Even the wireless telegraph has been
used for the transmission of music,
making it a telephone for the time be-
ing. A station operator in Jamaica has
a photograph which he attaches to a
telephone transmitter rugged up with
the wireless outfit, and through this
the wireless operators operators on the
ships bound through Windward Pass
age may listen to the strains of God
Save the King" or of Yankee Doodle"
depending on the nationality of the ship
operator.
Controlling Machinery by Wireless.
Still more remarkable is the advance
in the use of wireless for the control
of distant machinery. The British gov
eminent recently conducted some ex-
perlmentS with a big submarine boat
The crew remained in the vessel. but
the man who was to control 1t stayed
on a cruiser. By pressing this key and
that. the operator on the cruiser was
able to make the distant submarine
dive or come to the surface, move for
ward or aft, turn to port or to star
board and, in short, do all the things
that the men on the boat itself might
make il do. After the submarine had
been put through its PAGES in this way,
the crew was taken aboard the cruiser
and the manless submarine was put
through all the PAGES again. The Brit
ish government is keeping its secret
carefully, yet others are accomplishing
the same ends, and it is safe to predict
that before long wireIessly operated
torpedoes, flying machines and other
engines of war viii be possible. Think
what war would be if the day should
come when wireless, manless flying
machine could be dispatched against an
enemy, carrying huge charge of high
explosives which could be drOpDed bv
actuatiOn and exploded in the
same way over the heads of an arnvi
Even ecipsing these things is the
progress that has been made in utfliz-
ing 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 mechanism he has de- !
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