The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-15
EXPERT TELLS OF
WIRELESS PHONE
Gives Description With View To
Making II Clear To Nom
Scientific Men
(Concluded from page g.


seen, To you and the wonderful staff
created by yOu-- the world owes
debt.
ITO throw your voice directly
without the aid of wires from Wash
iington to Hawaii-nearly 5000 miles
greater distance than from New
York to Paris, and greater than that
between Seattle and Toxic or Yoke
hama, was wonderful, but to send the
recognized voice part way over wire
and part through the air was still
more wonderful and was the demon
stration of the chiefest use that will
probably attach to the wireless, as am
plifying and experimenting, not sub
shutting, the wire system, and bring
into conversational communication
ships, islands and places which cannot
otherwise be reached.
Your work has indeed brought US
one long step nearer our ideal-a uni
versal system. THEO. n. VAIL
Mission Of the Wireless
"Mr, Vail also gave out the follow
ing additional statement with the tele-
gram:
." As you will see from this, Il IL
clear that wireless will never substitute
or supplant the wi-e systems, but will
greatly amplify them and extend their
usefulness. 1t is humanitarian rather
than commercial, but it is useful in
that II makes conversation possible be.
tween places and moving objects that
could not he connected by wire. As
with the wireless telegraph, IL prob.
ably never will be dependable enough
except as outlined as above
'The new apparatus in which naval
and company engineers place so great
confidence involves an entirely new
process of transmitting electrical
waves More than this, Mr.. Gherardi,
who has ass .sted Mr.. Carly closely ii
his work, said yesterday he could not
say.
Gherardi Explains System
| The process is very delicate and
abst rIise,' he said. 1T Is one which
would be almost impossible for the lay
mind to understand, With all my &C.
quaintance with it / doubt If I could
prepare an explanation within n week
which would be comprehensive to the
non scientific mind.
Further, the procedure is not yet
protected and IL is evident that no
scientific explanation could be given
ont until our patents are ready.
The system consists of four sets
Of important special apparatus over
which have been spent months of work
and years of thought There are two
sets at either end; at one the set con-
meeting the ordinary wire with the
transmitting apparatus and the trans.
hitting act; at the other the receiv.
ing set and that connecting the re-
cever with the ordinary wire.
The electrical waves transmitted
through the air by the apparatus are
of the same nature as those trans.
mitted over the wire by the ordinary
telephone. There are three great limi.
tations which apply to wireless tele,
phony rs well as to wireless telegraphy
and restrict its commercial value
go. atmospheric eonditions-the so
called static. A wireless tower is @
structure which catches all these dis
turbances.
%. The interference of other sta
tions. This can be obviated to a Ger
tain extent by tuning the instruments
but Is still a very serious problem.
"'3. The lack of secrecy. In sending
n wireless telephone message you ar,
electrically shouting it out to the whoh
world.
Satisfied With Rxpe giments
owe are satisfied by our expert
ments that il will beautifully supple
ment the present wire system; but a.
the wireless telegraph has never dis
placed the wire telegraph it will neve
displace the ordinary telephone. You
will always notice that for accurate de
tails of trouble at sea a wire is neces
sary. The wireless gives the genera
trend and draws the outlines, but tn
details that people wish to know ar,
only transmitted over the wire.
At present we are contemplating
no definite further experiments. w
are catching our breath for a minute
but there is an enormous amount o.
work still to be done and it win b,
carried on steadily by our stats. -
Regarding the Honolulu Arlington
and Mare Island Arlington tests, Cap
tain Bullard, chief of the navy's radi,
service, said
- The apparatus used in the lon,
distance telephony is still in the In
fancy of its development. The aetna
mechanics are still being kept a secret
The experiment was TO discove
the accuracy of the engineering in
voIved. The experiments were con
tinued for five hours and at one tim
conversation across the continent wa