The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-08-23

IIommlSSlOn II WOuld De QlinCult 10
t"e big American battleships 10 &c
ont of touch with Washington any
d where it night DE sent. Tn hi
s towers of the Arlington station, on
s o. them forty-five fee. higher tia!
3 the Washington monument, are con
5 spcuous additions to the lands
cape of the capital cue The Unite,
, S'stes now has forSyfcur Ind sta
,'"Ds, and every vesSe! IN the nav.
ha; wireless equipment
The French are also laying out
D'aI for great world ireless sys
ten. Already Francs has the great
: est wireless station IL the verdi.
RE one on Eiffel ttwtr. This 81,
ter has range of solnp 1000 mile;
and it is able to start it's message:
hrIhng through space with the pow.
or of millions of volts behind them
!, IT uses so much power that at Right
tie wires become illuminant, and the
top of the big tower has to be in
sulated with twenty feet OF lusuIat-
ing material.
This Eiffel tower station has dem
onstrated what a great aid wireless
telegraph may be to the geographers
81 the world. For the purpose IF as
certing the longitude of Tunis, a
clock in the big station near there
was connected with the big clock
in the Eiffel tower. 1t was found
that it required the signal the
seven-thousandth part of second to
travel between the two points, and as
it has been definitely proved that ele-
ctricity travels 10000 miles a Sec
ond, the calculation of the longitude
became easy. When the royal astron-
omer of England fixed the longitude
of Velentit, little island off the
coast of Kerry where the Atlantic
cables go down into the sea, he had
thirty chronometers carried back and
forth between Valentia and Green
witch twenty-five times before he con-
siaered the longitude properly fixed
The United States weather bureau
and the photographic office of the
navy find wirless peculiar aid to
them in determining meteorological
conditions in the remote corners of |
the earth. The weather bureau fore
caster gets birdseye view of the
weather the whole worldaround with
in few hours of the time of making
lis forecast
One of the objects of inventors
is to bring out compact
wireless outfit suitable for field pur-
poses. Of course the smaller the
outfit the wider it's field of useful
ness. An army officer mas designed
a field sending and receiving outfit
which has total weight of less than
fifty pounds. The receiving equip
ment occupies box fifteen inches
deep and sixteen square, weighing
about twenty-six pounds. The gem
orator weights about twenty pounds.
A young amateur has invented a re-
ceiving outfit which can be carried
in the pocket. The apparatus is at
tached by means of clips to any met
al article capable of holding electric
waves, and consists of two clips, six
feet of cord wire, two safety pins, a
bit of silicon and a receiver, the
whole thing costing the munificent
sum of two dollars.
1t is probable that within short
line people will be talking from NOV
ng trains by means of the semi
wireless outfit known as the rail
phone" This instrument is being
,ried out and has met with success
lust now the Pennsylvania railroad
S considering the equipment of some
If its trains with wireless and of
,rying to use it instead of the tele-
'hone and the ordinary telegraph in
rain handling. 1t is said that the
apparatus does its best work
n bed, stormy weather, when the
telephone and the telegraph are most
lpt to be out of commission.
Some of the big department stores
ire now being equipped with wire
ess outfits which permit them to
END and receive business messages
lirect. One Of the big daily news
'apers in New York has almost en-
irely given up the transatlantic cab T
9 in getting it's European news, and
8 now getting some twenty thousand
words week across the Atlantic by
T '95
The navy department has dropped
he word wireless" from its voca-
'ulary, using the word "radiogram"
instead. Whether or not it ia pro-