The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-06-23
WIRELESS PHONE
SCORES TRIUMPH
Ordinary Instrument Used to
Receive Messages.
NEW ERA IN RADIO SCIENCE

Deck, RAINY HSaTo !"
Newspaper Office - Experts Foresee
Time When We Can Call Up Our
Friends at Sea.
For the first time since 1t was dis
covered that messages could be trans
mitted through the ether without the
medium of wires a human voice Oh
board a ship at sea was In long COM
munication with land.
Every word that DIR. ID. G.. McCaa,
an inventor of Lancaster, Pa, uttered
from the deck of the Old Dominion
steamship Tyler was heard plainly
through the medium Of the telephone
apparatus now in common use, In the
New York Herald office.
A telephone instrument was connect
ed by wire with an instrument in the
Herald radio station at the Battery,
New York. That instrument was con
nected directly with the a~erials, or
%antennae, high above the station.
Those aerials caught the spoken voice
of DR.. McCaa as it came through the
ether from the Tyler, and instantly
the voice was heard by the person
holding the receiver to his ear In the
newspaper Office.
Opens Up Big Possibilities.
The test proves, according to *
perts, that wireless communication is
upon the threshold of its greatest for
ward step; that a person on shore, in
his home or his office may pick up the
same telephone that he has been using
for years to transmit land messages
and be placed in communication quick
ly with any person on board q steam
ship at sea.
Furthermore, IL means, according to
these same experts and approved by
steamship men, that every vessel at
sea may now be in communication at
all times with other vessels and with
the land by n simple apparatus that
does not require a specially drilled
operator, as does the wireless tele-
graph. The master of a freight vessel
may stand on his bridge and speak in
an ordinary voice into his wireless
telephone instrument and be heard by
his agents ashore or by other vessels.
Soon after the Tyler, bound for Nor,
folk, Va, passed quarantine in New
York harbor DIR. McCaa got into oil.
rect telephone communication with the
Herald.
Hello, Herald radio station!' came
a voice into the station. This was an.
swered by wireless telegraphy. Then
came the voice again: '"This Is DIR. Nc,
Caa, on board the Tyler. Let us talk
to one of the editors. please"
Voice Plainly Heard.
A receiving instrument in the Bat
terry station was connected directly
with the telephone company's system
and a connection was obtained.
Hello! HelloP' came the voice as
plainly as though the speaker were
only a few feet away. This is DR.
McCaa. ! am on board the Tyler
bound out In the direction of Sandy
Hook"
Messages went back and forth mos
of the night and long after the lyle
had turned the corner of Sandy Hool
and was far on her way to Norfolk.
DIR. McCaa's interest in wireless tele
phony dates from the first practice
tests Of wireless telegraphy by Signo
Marconi In 1902. ~ thought then" n
says. that II II were possible to trans
nit dots and dashes 1t must also b.
possible to develop the wireless tele
phone.
my first work was of an experiment
: tai nature with wireless telegraphy.
then applied my mind to X ray work
and next ! applied myself to develop
ing my theories in regard to wireless
! telephony"
DIR. McCaa is thirty years old. III
was graduated from the Medico Chi
rurgical college In Philadelphia In 1908