The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-25
WIRELESS CENTER
1t Is Located Under the Eiffel
Tower in Paris.
VIII Send Out Time Signals to
the World.
The EFFORT FOR ACCURACY
Has Reached to the Hundredth
Part of q Second.
French Capital Invents Rival
to the Tango.

Paris, Oct. 25.-The famous Efffel
Tower of Paris. the highest steel
structure of it's kind in the world, was
about to be torn down several years
day it is regarded as one of Frances
most valuable possessions. The French
capital, because of the Eiffel Tower
has become the wireless centre of the
world.
Underneath the Champ de Mars in
which the tower stands, a vast sub
terranean wireless plant has been
constructed. Its presence is scarcely
suspected by the passer-by, for it's only
entrance is little more than a trap
door in the ground, partly concealed
by clump of trees. But should he
attempt to approach too near the little
iron staircase leading underground, he
Will find his way barred by soldiers.
Below ground, amid maze of pas
Sages, gigantic machines and a con-
tinual cracking and flashing of the
wireless, a 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 on which also will de-
pend the adequate corporation 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 as a member of the
French Wireless Mission sent by the
Professor Abraham will not join his
colleagues until late in October.
During our work at Arlington last
SPRING said he, I'VE succeeded in CO.
operation with our American asso-
ciates 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-
ceiving and recording of wireless mes
sages. We expect now to establish the
WASHINGTON
hundredth of a second, and as a 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 hundredth of a second.
This effort for accuracy to within
the hundredth of a second has re-
quired a tremendous Improvement in
the wireless apparatus and a great
advance in clock-making. Two of
the most important pieces of the
equipment which we shall take to
America will be chronometers of such
extreme precision that after being set
before leaving France they are re-
lied upon not to vary appreciably dur
ing the whole of our time in America.
I'VE shall use photography in reg
istering Eiffel Tower signals for fix
ing 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 I have
succeeded in dividing the second into
10000 parts Experiences so far on
the speed of wireless waves tend to
show that they travel at the same
speed as light from which we make
the important deduction that they are
the same thing"
A rival to the tango has found its way
to Paris. 1t is called the Crawling
Dance" It's future is difficult to predict,
for owing to the nature of the new step,
a particular blouse, bonnet and gloves are
prescribed. After several bars of waltz
ing, the two dancers release their hold
and lie down gracefully at full length
Then. keeping time to the music, they
and waltz again. Enthusiasts for the new
dance affirm that it will be the dance of
the coming Partisan season.
A new and terrible engine of destruction
whose function in the air will be the same
as that of a torpedo at sea, has been
designed by Captain RebouI of the mill
tary general staff in Paris.
Captain ReboUIs experiments with his
aerial torpedo made comparatively little
progress until the recent discovery of
stab;lizing device for aeroplanes by the
French inventor, Moreau. Moreau was
able, by means of his invention, to fly in
a strong wind for over half an hour
without touching his hands to the levers
of his machine. only using his feet on
the pedals for steering purposes Captain
Ffeboul has applied Moreau's stabilizer to
his own invention and is able to foresee
he time when a fleet of winged torpedos
controlled by wireless telegraphy may be
launched against the enemy'S air-fleet
Immediately on its appearance.
It is not impossible to believe that in the