Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-03
WIRELESS Will BE
REvOLUTIONIzED
BY HONOLULU TEST
Honolulu Selected for Demon.
stration That Triples Speed
and Avoids lnaccuracy
DEMONSTRATION MADE
ON THURSDAY EVENING
Visiting Marconi Officials Con-
duct Test and Further Speed
Will Soon Be Possible

Honolulu was honored last night by
being selected as the first place in the
world where the latest departure in
wireless telegraphy, which practically
levolutioniZes that science, was tested.
found 100 per cent efficient and per-
manently installed as part OF the
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Com
pany's great communication system
Eere.
Not content with making Honolulu
the Popping Place OF the Pacific"
through which the messages of the
world will shortly travel on to japan,
w. A. Winterb0ttom and Edward y.
Pillsbury, the two Marconi men who
have been in Honolulu for some time
putting the big Kahuku and koko
Head plants in readiness for the busi-
ness of the world, have selected the
capital of Hawaii for an initial ven
ture which Increases the speed OF mes
sage tranmission about 400 per cent
and removes the human equation with
all its unavoidable inaccuracies and
personal idiosyncrasies from the mes,
sage itself.
Only q Wheatstone BOX"
In the presence of a few Interested
Honolulu businessmen who were the
guests of w. p. s. Hawk, local Mar
conf manager, the simplicity, accuracy
and tlloroughness of very unpfen1
tious and simple looking Wheatstone
transmitter and perforator, which mas
been in use on land lines for years,
but which has never been CONNER
c;ally utilized by the wireless people,
was demonstrated by PillsDury anu
Winterbottom. Wireless science ltseu
is amazing enough, but what the Mar,
coni men did with that little "Dox
last night and the things they pro-
nosed to do is nearly past comprenen-
sion, although simple enough in opera
tion
In the. most casual manner the ae-
mass of the Marconi's night.
business was perforated, transmlttee
to San Francisco, received there anu
an %. X" flashed back when the last
word had sped over the Pacific spaces
inst 40 minutes after the senolhs
started, The desirability OF this pro-
ceaure NAV be appreciated by compar7
ing II with the old process, wnion
would have taken an hour and haiI
or two hours. with possible mistakes,
while the messages sent by the ma
chine were absolutely perfect anu
crrorless. The manual work OF the
onerators at the Kahuku wireless sta
ton is also eliminated.
Greater Speed Possible
The Wheatstoen transmitter, was set
last night to send about 80 words q
minute. as the man on the California
receiving end could write" no faster.
Put as soon as the method OF receiving
on monographs records is installed
in the near future in California by
Wjnterbottom and Pillsbury, the speed
nj sending may be increased to lzO
words a minute with no lessenlng OF
accuracy and efficiency. and the re-
ceiying records, after reception, SLOW
cd down to a speed in tune with the
human hand on the typewriter anu
transcribed at leisure by any numoef
of operators.
The Marconi officials have been ex
nerimenting with the new metnod lor
two weeks and have found IT flaWiess
in sending either to Japan or America
Ry using the perforator. messages are
mnched in a long tape not unlike Ine
famous Wall Street ticker Inc
oneration of an expert or a beginner
on the nerforator renders the message
ON the tape perfect and it may De
nlaced in the transmitter and sent ou'
over the world at any speed desired
Operators Like the BOX
With the addition of the Wheatstone
aoninment to the wireless apparatus
IN the Marconi office here. old-tlme
nnerating becomes thing of the past
and the keymen gladly take up tnelI
naw work of merely watching anu
cbecking the work Of the machine. An
annsratus with an ordinary typewriter
Eeyboard has also been invented, out Is
not vet installed here, which makes
the operation of the tape per1orator
and therefore the whole new system
possible for the average stenograpner.
Although as intricate as the mecnan-
ism of a watch the magical properties
of the Wheatstone transmitter, when
ouadruples speed, prevents mistakes
and eliminates operators, are made
more wonderful when it Is fully under !
stood that it has absolute control OF
the 300-kilowatt current at the koko
Head plant and of the 500-horsepower
turh;ue OF Kahuku -...