Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-16
Wireless Telephone System
Around the Globe is Dream
of Marconi About Realized
Hawaii to Be Link Between the
Mainland, the Orient and
Australasia

Hawaii as a link in a chain Of wire
less telephone service that is expected
TO circle the globe within the next II
months is the promise emanating from
London. where a thorough investiga-
ton is being made OF the SYSTEMS OF
Communication OF the world. 49,
Strides in wireless communication
were wildly set forth By Godfrey Is
aacs, managing director CT the Mar
conf Company, in his testimony before
the Dominion S Wireless Commission
on Imperial Communications, in Lon
don. He said in effect that with APP
paratus as now improved distance will
soon interpose no barrier to telegraph.
ic extensions and that telephone tests
have been almost as promising.
"Mr. Marconi expects to be able to
telephone from carnarVon, Wales, to
New York before the end of the pre-
sent year." was the first statement
with which Manager isaacs startie q
the commission. apparatus now in
hand shows that most important de-
veIopments are imminent. II has de.
monstrated that telephone eommuni-
cation depends only on the power of
the machine.
. Power will overcome distance
With a few mechanical changes, which
Mr.. Marconi knows how to make, he
will certainly be able to talk with
New York from Carnarvon We be.
Iieve we will be harnessed up with
the Bell Telephone Company in New
York within a few months. Wireless
the only means of comngini
We have tried to make the connection
by cable wires and have proved that
impossible. |
To South America Also.
When We can talk with New York
we viii be able to talk with any other
point by the use OF sufficient power.
do not hesitate to predict that we
will have telephone connection be.
tween London and Buenos Ayres as
soon as we have wireless telegraph
service between the two places. We
ought to telephone to Argentina as
easily as to telegraph there"
SIR Rider Haggard, who, was exam.
thought the time would come when
anyone could telephone from his home
to any place he desired
Il won't go so far as to promise
that, was the answer, but say with
entire confidence that it will be pos.
sible to go to a certain station in
London and talk by telephone with
New York Wireless communication
stands at the threshold Of unrevealed !
1t will be simple matter to han
die across the American continent and
from San Francisco to the Northwest.
] There will be no difficulty in estab.
fishing connection with the Orient and
Australia through a station on Ha.
vail" ii.
Questioned as to security for Sc.
crecy in wireless telegraphy, Mr..
lsaacs replied: ~..... -....
Long wave lengths can be picked
up only by stations of the same pow
er as those which send them out
When the new Carnarvon- Belmer ser.
vice is established we will be able to
undertake the entire work now done
BY the Pacific cable and improve up.
IN it.
Three Hundreds Words Minute.
With the mechanical additions we
are effecting there will be no reason
Why the speed of transmission may
not be increased to 800 words min.
lite. -G~
mot only is wireless telegraphy
about to be established between Eng
and and Argentina but also between
England and Brazil, between France
Ind the United States and between
Norway and New York.
Atmospheric disturbances which
heretofore have interfered with wire
ess communication will be overcome.
The great future developments in
ong distance telegraphy will be &C.
by wireless apparatus.
"one desideratum to be gained by
progress in wireless work will be
'eductIon in telegraph tolls all over
he world. That relief is certain with
n the near future. II is particularly
,eeded within the British empire"