The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-22
BOWSER, HE GETS 1T.
He Is to Astonish the World With a
Tin Horn.

Mr.. Bowser had got it,
Mrs. Bowser knew it the moment he
entered the house.
Was it a new fire escape?
| Was it a new mich COW?
Was it chickens or a flying machine
She held her breath and waited but he
said there would be nothing doins
until after dinner, and there was moth
ing for her but to prepare herself fol
the best or worst.
Mr. Bowser was ponderously gay
over the meal, but it was finished al
last, and when they had assembled tc
the sitting room he produced a tir
horn and began:
[. "A woman doesn't know much OF
course-just enough to enable her tc
dodge a cable car or a butcher cart
but perhaps you have heard of the
| new idea in science-wireless tele-
graphy?"
Il have seen it mentioned in the pa
pers." stiffly replied Mrs. Bowser.
Then you know what the idea is. 1t
is to telegraph without wires. or by
sound waves of the human voice. The
human voice, as may explain to you,
does not issue from the throat like a
piece of turnip, but in waves following
each other so closely that it is hard to
detect the intervals between them.
For instance, my voice as I now speak
to you seems to string out like a rope,
doesn't it?''
Yes; I was just thinking how much
it resembled an old clothesline.''
Thanks. Ignorance always tries to
hide behind sarcasm However, there
are scores of breaks or intervals in my
voice just the same, only your ears
don't detect them"
And what if they don't?''
"Ah, there is the key to the whole
thing. Two or three people are work
ing at it. but they have just missed
it as yet. They don't go on the right
principle. They forget that the last
sound or wave must be heavy to drive
the other wave before it to a distance"
And so some one has started you off
on that fad?' She queried as he bal
anced himself on his heels and looked
down upon her in a plying, patronizing
way.
Call it what you will, Mrs Bowser-
fad, discovery or tomfoolery-but 1
have solved the problem for the world,
and the name of Bowser has been
placed above those of Edison and Tesla.
Yes, ma'am. idiot as l am, I have given
the world a wireless telegraph at last"
How did you do it?'' she asked. be-
coming interested in spite of herself
and thinking there might probably be
something to it after all.
Simplest thing in the world. 1
shout a message and then use this
horn and a last word to overtake the
other words and hump them along.
1t is like, sending a big rock rolling
down hill after smaller ones. If you
can be halfway decent for the next
half hour 1 will show you a few things
to make your hair curl. In all the ex-
perrin ents thus far made the operators
at each end of the route have had to
use different devices. Observe that
use nothing of the kind. I simply face
in a certain direction and set the
sound-waves rolling. We will suppose
that I am in New York and the cook
downstairs is in London. [ want to
communicate message to her
through the receiving operator. I
open the stair door so. That gives
my voice chance. I will now set the
sound-waves going by crying out at
the top of my voice:
Hello there, Bridget O'Hallahani"
'"That is what may be called the