Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-06-08

pense with artificial batteries, but
use the free electricity of the at
mosphere,, cooperating with that OF
| the earth to supply the electrical dy-
| manic force or current for telegraph
| ing and for other useful purposes,
such as light, heat and motive power.
AS atmospheric electricity is found
| more and more abundant when mois-
ture, clouds, heated currents of air
and other dissipating influences are
left far below and a greater altitude
| attained, my plan is to seek as high an
elevation as practicable on the tops of
nigh mountains and thus penetrate or
establish electrical connection with the
atmospheric stratum or ocean overly
ing local disturbances. Upon these
mountain tops [ erect suitable towers
and apparatus to attract the electric
ity, or in other words to disturb the
electrical equilibrium and thus obtain
current of electricity, or shocks, or
puisatiOns, which traverse or disturb
the positive electrical body of the at
mosphere above and between two
given points by communicating it
to the negative electrical body in
the earth below to form the electric
current"
After declaring that the inventor
d1d not utilize any new keyboard or
alphabet the patent concludes with
the assertion that he claims:
The utilization of natural cleo
.tricity from elevated points by CON
Meeting the opposite polarity of the
celestial and terrestrial bodies of cleo
tricity at different points by suitable
conductors, and for telegraphic pur-
poses relying upon the disturbance
produced in the two electro-opposite
bodies (of the earth and the at
mosphere) by an interruption of the
continuity of one of the conductors
from an electrical body being indi-
Gated upon it's opposite or correspond
ing terminus, and thus producing a cir
cult of communication between the
two without an artificial battery or
the further use of wires or cables to
connect the cooperating stations"
The fate of the Loomis invention
was not long In being determined.
His company was formed and expert
ments were carried on, but the Tin this
day. manifestly impossible scheme
was soon found to be impracticable,
! despite the several advanced ideas
presented, and the proposition pres
emily went to smash, adding another
name to the great roll of disappointed
and disillusioned pioneers
Although LoOmfs was the first man
to get recognition In the American
congress for wireless discovery, men
had inklings of the possibility of
the thing so years before him. About
the first to take up the work was Doc
tor Steinheil of Munich, who in 1888
the science. Morse in 1912 saw that
| telegraphing without wires would some
day be possible, but he was too busy
with the wire method to spend any
time on the other plan
The credit for the successful appli-
cation of the principles of wireless
communication of course belongs to
| Marconi, who has had the wit and the
resource to employ the work of his
| predecessors in the field and actually
TO produce the now wonderful result.
Marconi's real accomplishment is of
comparatively recent date and it owes
much even to the dreamings of Doc
tor Loomis, not to mention the expert
menting of such eminent minds as J.
| Trowbridge in 1880, Sir w. III. Preece
in 1882, Willoughby Smith, Sir Oliver
Lodge, Alexander Graham Bell,
others who contributed to the general
result.
| The employment OF the Hertzian
waves, discovered by Hertz in 1886 and
1887, by Marconi and then the Ital-
ian's invention of the antennae, for the
detection of electric impulses, resulted
finally in the commercial wireless of
today, which in seeming perfection
is still but In It's infancy. Greater
marvels are yet in store for the world
than even the direction of torpedoes
by wireless and the sending of mes
sages from New York to Honolulu,
and than even wireless communica-
| ton between fighting airplanes and
| ground stations far back of the bat
tie lines. Yet these accomplishments
are far cry from that day in 1893
when two British cruisers at maneuv-
ers were able to communicate with
each other by telegraph and the world
| thought that the summit of wonders
| had been achieved.-New York Sun.
I Indians Good Orchardists.