The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-14
COMPETITION
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United states, Alaska, Cuba, Porto
Rico, Panama, Hawaiian and Philip.
pine Islands, together with the trans
marine rights of valdemar Poulsen,
the Danish scientist and inventor.
San Franelseans Interested.
The Poulsen corporation and the
Federal Telegraph Company is com
posed of a number of prominent San
Francisco capitalists who hold all the
stock. Among those who are most
heavily interested are Charles r.
Bishop, E. w. Hopkins, John L. 7
Deahl, George A. Pope, Alexander
Hamilton, ]. Henry Meyer, Antoine
Borel & Co., Beach Thompson, John
lawson Balfour, Guthrie & Co., H.
P. veeder, S. E. slade, c. F. Elwell,
c. D. Marx, General Harrison Gray
Otis, F. G. Baum, C. B. Wells, Samuel
L. Schwabacher, DR.. Washington
Dodge, George E. Bates, Charles ].
Freedom, F. w. Braun, Myer Fried. !
man, H. P. Goodman and Elliott Nc I,
Allister.
One claim made by the Poulsen
concern is that its system guarantees
privacy and that it has perfected its
service so as to give an excellent day
as well as a night service, and so
make its system of commercial value.
Its announcement of its advent in
the wireless field reads in part as fol-
lows:
Through the perfection of the
Poulsen system the hope of success
for day and night service over land
has been realized. This, it has been
discovered after years of effort along
those lines, could not be done by the
spark system of wireless telegraphy.
Drawbacks developed in the use of
the spark system show that it's use is
confined nearly exclusively to marine
work, and that messages cannot be
transmitted as far in the daytime as
at night, either on land or over water.
Also there is no privacy in sending
messages by this system, as there are
so many amateur operators intercept
ing them.
With the perfection of high fire.
quency current system by Poulsen,
and adopted by the German. Danish
and Austrian governments, these
drawbacks have been overcome. Not
only is privacy assured, but accuracy
and speed are attained through the
equipment of mechanical devices for
sending and receiving messages.
400 Words a Minute.
"a Where other systems receive from
twenty to thirty words minute, the
"a Poulsen method will insure the re-
\. ceiving of as high as 400 words a
~ minute
81 The Federal Telegraph Company
q now has fourteen stations on the Pa
ID cific coast. The company intends
e first to establish its system west of
b. the Mississippi river, in the United
If States, and over the Pacific ocean To
~ the Philippine Islands. After this is
al accomplished, the country east of the
Mississippi will be penetrated and
of service installed, being the first over
VS. land commercial wireless service IL
d, the United States.
s. Shops at PaIo Alto.
H. The factory and laboratories O
he the Federal company are maintained
cd at Patio Alto, where instruments ant
apparatus are now ready for man,
~ additional stations.
80 "At South San Francisco an i'm
no mense station is being built to CO
adj operate with the one at Ocean Beach
"A site has been secured at Sal
US Lake for the largest station eve
Ike erected, with radius of $50 miles
err reaching all the important Pacif
an coast cities"