The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-25
EIFFEL TOWER, ONCE CONSIDERED
USELESS, NOW WIRELESS CENTER

tDN.L "a liAN 81 OhlAQs lftli ~ NfAAN NtNANN
by a clump of trees. But should he
attempt to approach too near the lit
tie iron staircase leading under
ground, he viii find hs way barred
by soldiers.
4 Below ground, amid a maze Of pas
sages, gigantic machines and con-
tinual cracking and flashing of the
q wireless, Il corps of military engineers
and electrical experts are working
day and night to perfect instruments
on the accuracy of whose messages in
wartime may depend Frances victory
Or defeat, and ~ which also will de-
pend the adequate cooperation of the
allied army of Russia. 1t was in his
/ laboratory here that Prof. Henri Abra-
ham, Of the Sorbonne, talked today
of what his work rs member of7tha
French Wireless Mission sent by the
government to Washington, will be.
Professor Abraham viii not Join his
colleagues until late in October.
During our work at Arlington last
spring. said he, eve succeeded in co.
operating with our American associ-
ates in establishing the relative time
Of Washington and Paris within the
+ tenth Of a second. Since then we have
been able to improve greatly the re-
roi,,i,,c, opd vorordiD, of ,rira1oee mos.
sages We expect now to establish
the time of Washington to within the
! hundredth of a second, and as part
of this result the longitude of Wash
ington as related to Paris. France
will later send missions, to the other
/ principal nations with the object of
establishing a similar accuracy in the
relative times. Once this work is ac-
complished, the world will receive
/ time signals from the Eiffel Tower
/ and will be able TO register them to
within the huudreQth of q second.
This effort for accuracy to within
( the hundredth Of q second has requir-
ed a tremendous improvement in the
wireless apparatus and a great ad-
vancement in clock-making. Two of
/ the most important pieces of the
/ equipment which we shall take to
: America will be thermometers of such
extreme precision that after being set
before leaving France they are relied
upon not to vary appreciably during
the whole of our time in America.
1--WE shall use photography in regis
tering Eiffel Tower signals for fixing
the exact longitude of Washington.
We arrive easily at an accuracy of
hundredth part of a second by means
of film revolving at a fixed rate Of
speed and luminous spot influenced
by the wireless messages. In register
Ing the speed of radio waves ! have
succeesad in dividing the second into
10000 parts. Experiences so far on
the sueld of wireless waves tend to
show Chat they rayer al the same
speed as light, from which we make
.th mnonant deduction that they are
the same thing"
The "CrawIin9 Dance
A ryM TO the tango has found its
way to Paris. 1t is called the "CIawl-
In. Iuce." Its future is difficult to
predict for owing to the nature OF the
new step, a particular blouse, bonnet
and gloves are prescribed. After sew
Clal bars Of Waltzing, the two dancers
release their hold and lie down grace
fully at full length. Then, keeping
time to the music, they slowly raise
themselves to join each other and
waltz again. Enthusiasts for the new
dance affirm that it will be the dance
of the coming Partisan season.
New War Machine.
A new and terrible engine of de
struction whose function in the air will
be the same as that of a torpedo at
sea, has been designed by Captain Re-
boul, Of the Military General Staff in
Paris.
Captain Reboul's experiments with
his aerial torpedo made comparatively
little progress until the recent dis
covary of stabilizing device for aero
planes by the French inventor, Nor
van. Norc1u was able, by means Of
his invention, to fly in a strong wind
fer over half an hour without touch
ing his hand to the levers of his ma
chine, only using his feet on the !
pedals for steering purposes. Captain |
Reboul has applied Moreaus stabilizer
to his invention and is able to fore
see the time when a fleet of winged |
torpedoes controlled by wireless tele-
graphy may be launched against the
encmy's air-heet Immediately on its |
appearance,