Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-03
WIRELESS Will BE
REvOLUTION|zED
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
feyolutionizes 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 win shortly travel on to Japan,
w. A. Winterbottom and Edward 3.
Fillsbury, 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 it's unavoidable inaccuracies and
personal fdiosyncrasies from the mes
sage itself.
Only a 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 thoroughness of a very unpren-
,tious and simple looking Wheatstone
transmitter and perforator, which has !
been in use on land lines for years,
but which has never been CONNER
cially utilized by the wireless people,
was demonstrated by Pillsbury and
Wireless science itself
Is amazing enough, but what the Mar.
conf men did with that little box
last night and the things they pro-
posed to do is nearly past comprehen-
sion, although simple enough in opera
ton.
In the most casual manner the ae-
mass of the Marconi's night
business was perforated, transmitted
to San Francisco, received there anc
an o. K" flashed back when the last
word had sped over the Pacific spaces
inst 40 minutes after the sendlng |
started. The desirability Of this pro-
cedure may be appreciated by compar-
ing it with the old process, which |
would have taken an hour and a nall |
or two hours, with possible mistakes,
while the messages sent by the ma
chine were absolutely perfect and
errorless. The manual work of the
operators at the Kahuku wireless sta
tion is also eliminated.
Greater Speed Possible
The Wheatstoen transmitter was set
last night to send about 80 words a
minute, as the man on the California
receiving end could write" no faster. |
But as soon as the method of receiving
or Photographic records is installed
in the near future in California ty |
and Pillsbury, the speed
OF sending may be increased to l2o
words a minute with no lessening OF
accuracy and efficiency, and the re-
ceiving records, after reception, slow.
ed down to a speed in tune with the
human hand on the typewriter and
at leisure by any number
of operators.
The Marconi officials have been ex'
perimenting with the new method for
two weeks and have found it flawless
in sending either to Japan or America.
By using the perforator, messages are
punched in a long tape not unlike the
famous Wall Street ticker" The
operation of an expert or beginner
On the perforator renders the message
on the tape perfect and it may be
placed in the transmitter and sent out
over the world at any speed desired.
Operators Like the "Box'
With the addition of the Wheatstone
equipment to the wireless apparatus
in the Marconi office here. old-time
operating becomes thing of the past
and the keymen gladly take up their
new work of merely watching and
,hecking the work of the machine. An
with an ordinary typewriter
xeyboard has also been invented, but is
not yet installed here, which makes
he operation of the tape perforator
and therefore the whole new system
possible for the average stenographer.
Although as intricate as the mechan.
SIN of watch the magical properties
If the Wheatstone transmitter, which
luadruples speed, prevents mistakes
md eliminates operators, are made
more wonderful when it is fully under
stood that il has absolute control of
he 300-kilowatt current at the Koko
Head plant and of the 500-horsepowor