The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-02-07
woRLp.ARouNp WIRELESS
Marconi Company Prepares to Circle
the Earth.

Mareoni Company Prepares to Circle
the Earth.
New York, Feb. EN- plan to
open the Pacific Ocean for the first
time by wireless and to increase the
service between New York and Lon
den it was announced yesterday that
contract for eight wireless tele-
graph stations, the most powerful
in the world, has just been awarded
by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph
Company to the J. @. White Engineer
ing Corporation, contractors of this
city. The stations will be located in
pairs, a receiving and sending stat
icn, thirty miles apart, so that the
incoming and outgoing messages will
not interfere with one another. The
stations are to be placed at Oahu, in
the Sandwich Islands; Tamales Bay
and Bolinas, Cal, near Belmar, N.
j., and one in Eastern Massachusetts
at a point to be definitely selected
later
These stations, it was said, would
form part of a globegird'ng system
which will continue to the East by
way of Japan, so as not to interfere
with the United States Government
wire esS station at Manila, and
thence ultimately to India, connect
ing the West with European stations.
These stations, it was said, will not
only permit the transmission of mes
sages across the Pacific, but will
greatly increase the capacity and
speed of the service between New
York and London. They will have
the longest range and the highest
power of any wireless stations ever
built.
This range, it was estimated,
would vary from 1000 to 5000 miles
for each station. The stations must
be attuned each to a different note
to keep from interfering with each
other and with existing stations. The
Japanese Government, from which
the company has received permission
to locate a subsequent wireless sta
ton at some point on the coast of
Japan to be selected later, had the
first choice of notes for this system,
and the new stations had to choose
notes not pre-empted by the United
States Government. Each station
will sing its own note and be recog-
nizable thereby.
The poles for the stations will be
the tallest wireless poles ever known.
They will be 400 feet high, and in
some instances may go up to 450 feet,
as high as the Palisades. There win
be twelve poles at each station ar
ranged in great semicircle covering
square mile.
The method of erecting the poles
is unique. They will be sectional,
constructed without scaffolding and
bolted together in ten-foot lengths
The basket from which the work is
done is hoisted above the open end
of the ten-foot lengths on an inner
pole which is raised by means of a
heel rope.
The antennae with which these
wireless stations will feel the waves
that the coming aggregate so miles
in length, and the grounding" re
quires 40 miles of underground or
plowed-in wires.
The power plant of these stations
is arranged to give thousand horse
power spark. All of the vast reveiv-
ing stations will be 80 miles away at
right angles from the line on which
the sending stations are designed to
send so as TO avoid the etheric distur.
Dances caused by them. They will be
just able to gather up from the at
mosphere enough of the attenuated
incoming wireless from distant stat
ions to make a faint buzz on a tele
phone receiver, to make which prob
ably requires less energy thant that
necessary to actuate any other
known physical instrument.
The plans of the Marconi Company
1t was said, include stations to be
built by the British Marconi Com.
pany in Africa, Europe, and Asia, and
stations to be erected in Japan and
South America. A tentative scheme
of such a girdle around the world
was outlined as follows: From San
Francisco to Oahu; from Oahu to the
east coast of Japan; from Japan to
Singapore; Singapore to Bangalore:
Bangalore to Alden: Alden to Cairo;
Cairo to London; London to Cliffden.
Ireland; Chffden to Glaze Bay; Glace
Bay to New York; New York to Pan
anna; Panama to Bolinas, Cal.
The approximate cost of CARRYING
out the projected wireless bridge
across the Pacific could not be learn.
ed yesterday. 1t was said, however.
that the engineering work on the
eight new stations had already been
started, and that engineering forces
would shortly be set to the field. The
contract is one of the first of the ].
G. White Engineering Corporation.
The work on the new stations, it was
estimated, would be completed and
the stations put into operation in