The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-06-01

Washington, May 31.-Capt w, H.
G. Bullard, L. S. n, who is in charge
of the naval radio service, and. who
has his headquarters under the shad-
ow of the three great steel masts that
form the center of the naval wireless
system at Arlington, Va, seven miles
from Washington, has just presented
to the naval institute an interesting
review of the development of naval
wireless telegraphy,
The leaps and bounds of this de-
velopment are brought to pointed no
tice when it is recalled that during
the Spanish.American War such a
thing as wireless telegraphy was un-
tried in the United States mayor
any other navy. it was during 1899,
the year after the Spanish-American
conflict, that the British navy became
the first of all of the naval powers
to try the new means of communica-
ton upon the three warships-AleX-
andria. Europea. and Juno. These
ships succeeded in communicating up
to a distance of "a miles.
Today practically every vessel in
the United States navy is equipped
with apparatus for this aerial COM
munication, and ii is so successfully
operated that there is scarcely a point
in the seven seas at which the bigger
battleships would be out of touch
through relay, with the three great
masts towering over Captain Billiards.
headquarters at Arlington.
The first trial of wireless on Amer
lean warships was made late in 1899,
directly after the British ships had
proved its possibilities. The armored
cruiser New York (now the Sarato-
ga) the battleship Massachusetts and
the torpedo boat Porter were the first
to be equipped At about the same
time the Highlands Light Station in
the. first shore. station of the naval
New York harbor was established as
radio system.
Within six years more than 80 more
ships were equipped, and some fifty
shore stations established or project
ed. Almost every other vessel in the
navy was then placed on the list for
wireless equipment, and the work went
forward just as fast as possible. The
scheme included both the Atlantic and
Pacific seaboards, Alaska, the Midway
Islands and remote points.
Meanwhile, in the spring of 1905, the
naval system inaugurated What have
proved valuable daily features of its
service-fiashirg the noon time sig
nal, storm warnings and other meteor
illogical observations.
In 19O7-OS the development of the
wireless seemed to warrant the erec-
tion of high-powered stations at Wash
ington, on the Pacific coast, at Hawaii
Guam, Samoa, and the Philippines, so
that wherever il might be, the United
States feet would at all times be in
communication with Washington The
success of long distance communica-
tion was established during 1908, when
the Hawaiian Islands exchanged mes
sages with Farallon Islands, Cal, and
later during the cruise of the Atlant-
ic fleet around the world, when mes
sages were received across Central
America by Pensacola and Washing
ton BY a system of relays the fleet
was in touch with Washington prac-
tically every minute during the trip
across the Pacific until after New
Zealand was reached
At that time also the high-powered
naval station near here, to be the cen
tral point of the navy department sys-
ten, was projected. The station was TO
have radius OF 5000 miles both by
day and night; to be capable of over
coming interference from static dis
turbances and to be equipped with
apparatus to secure secrecy of opera