New Britain herald., 1915-07-30
MARCONl NEARLY
 GIRDLES WORLD
Opening of New Japanese Station Greatly Extends Wireless Service

New York, July 30.-The opening of the Japanese Marconi wireless plant at F>unabashi, near Yokohama, with messages on Tuesday to the Marcor1i station at Koko Head, Hawaii, ex- Ntended the Marconi service nearly two-thirds the way around the globe. If the war had not interfered with the creation of the British Imperial chain. it.hmiEht have been possible by this time to relay a message py wireless all the way around the world. sy
 The first message from the new sta- tion in Japan was received In this city on Tuesday by Edward J. Nally. vice president and general manager of ! the Marconi Wireless Telegraph com pany of America It travelled in the air 3,355 miles from Japan to Hawaii and then 2,0S7 miles from Hawaii to San Francisco
 A station at Petrograd is now in constant communication with the Marconi plant at Caernarvon, Wales From Clifden. Ireland, messages are sent across the Atlantic to Cape Glace. the new Marconi plant at Belmar, N. J.,. has sent messages across the United States to the station on Bolinas Fay, few miles from San Francisco, although the Maroon; company uses wire communication in its transconti- mental service.
 San Francisco has been in wireless communication for nearly year with the Marconi station ar Koxo Head on Oahu Island in Hawaii, and on Tues day messages for the first time were exchanged between Koko Head and the station at Funabashi, Japan. Wireless communication from Japan extends to vladivostok, Russia, and to various points in China ana the Orient. s 5000 Mile Link Next.
 The next link of the chain around the world will be from Japan to Singa- pore on tthe Malay Peninsula, extend ing the system of direct wireless com munication about 5000 miles further. A ststtOn at Singapore was to have bfen Erected as part of the British imperial chain. but it has been delayed although it was said at the Marconi officers in the Woolworth building yes- terday that it probably would be com rIeted within year.
 The next great station west of Sin-' gapore is to be at Bangalore, capital Of Mysore, India. Then the next is to be at Alden, on the southernmost tip of Arabia. The last link of the chain will be at Alexandria, Egypt, which will send messages easr 10 Alden and west to Carnarvon, Wales.
 In spite of the war, it is intended by Sthe British Marconi company to } nush the imperial chain to completion and in a year or little more 1t will be possible to relay messages around the 25.000 miles of the earrn.s circum- ference, a distance which for practical purposes is increased considerably be- csuse of nine stations are not on one parallel of latitude.
 From the main line round the earth, the wireless system will extend in all directions, covering not only Europe and North America, but Asia, south America, Africa, and the islands of the. Orient with a network which will put almost every city in the world in quick communication with al- most. all of the others.
 " Worlds Most Powerful Plants.
 The Marconi wireless stations in San Francisco, Hawaii and Japan are the most powerful in the world. The transmitting apparatus at each station issequipped with thirteen towers. each
 
 which are three times as powerful as those used at the Sayville station in sending messages to Nauen, 1iermany, 1000 miles.
 Although 1t is more than 500 miles further from Saville to Nauen than from Hawaii to Japan. the more apparatus was installed in the Pacific stations for the purpose of eliminating from the start most of the difficulties due to the so-called "at- nospheric conditions'' While the station at Sayville is only in opera tion at certain periods when condi- | lions are favorable, the Marconi sta,- lions on the Pacific can be operated | turing every minute or the twenty | four hours. The 300-kilowatt trans hitter Is capable of making itself felt 1 over any electrical disturbance. Y "A man who talks loudly enough is | heard in room full of no1se," said an | official of the American Marconi conn lsany yesterday "On the same prin- riple, traRsmitter that is strong enough sends messages despite any at- disturbance. A further in sIrance of uninterrupted service | across the Pacific is the ract that there |