The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1917-06-07

AboMfJotzy-tis' years ago ak1'ashtng7on den-
q hst zeiho had eabe,1menfed zeiH W,0elesS and
Suspected Hsmaryelous bosa6,ZlhesabbhedJv
Me,zghf to Incorporate COMPANY zAe eomedl-
ans in our National legislature had a bfoftA
oUer tile "cyuckb,ulned " idea and .ioshea Me
newspaper ze,htch subbo,7ed tile mUentor--

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 dlssipating influences are
left far below and greater altitude
attained, my plan Is to seek as High an
elevation as practicable on the tops of
high mountains and thus penetrate or
establish electrical connection with the
atmospheric stratum or ocean overly
Ing local disturbances. Upon these
mountain tops I erect suitable towers
and apparatus to attract the electric
ity, or In other words to disturb the
electrical equilibrium and thus obtain
a current Of electricity, or shocks, or
pulsations, which traverse or disturb
the positive electrical body of the at
mosphere above and between two
given points by communicating 1t
to the negative electrical body In
the earth below to form the electric
current"
After declaring that the inventor
did not utilize any new keyboard or
alphabet, the patent concludes with
the assertion that he claims:
THE utilization Of natural elec-
tricity from elevated points by con-
meeting the opposite polarity Of the
celestial and terrestrial bodies of cleo
trlclty at different points by suitable
conductors, and for telegraphlc 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 Its opposite or correspond
Ing terminus and thus producing 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. manlfestly impossible scheme
was soon found to be lmpracticable,
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 Loomls was the first man
to get recognition In the American
3 congress for wireless discovery, men
: had inklings of the possibility of
! the thing 80 years before him. About
8 the first to take up the work was Doc
, tor Steinheil Of Munich, who in 1888
evolved some of the basic features of
? the science. Morse In 1912 saw that
: telegraphing without wires would some
5 day be possible, but he was too busy
e with the wire method to spend any
q time on the other plan.
The credit for the successful appli-
: cation Of the principles of wireless
e communication of course belongs to
: Marconi, who has had the wit and the
t resource to employ the work of his
: predecessors In the field and actually
: to produce the now wonderful result
9 Marconi's real accomplishment is of
d comparatively recent date and 1t owes
t much even to the dreamings of Doc.
8 tor Loomis not to mention the expert.
Q menting of such eminent minds as j
Trowbridge In 1880, Sir w. H. Preece
!, In 1882, Willoughby Smith, Sir Oliver
j. Lodge, Alexander Graham Bell
J. Thomas A. Edison and numerous
+ others who contributed to the general
/, result.
Il waves, discovered by Hertz in 1885 and
1887, by Marconi and then the Ital
3 iap's invention of the antennae, for the
f detection of electric impulses, resulted
J. finally In the commercial wireless OF
It today, which In seeming perfection
3, Is still but In Its infancy. Greater
t. marvels are yet In store for the worlt
Il than even the direction of torpedoes
n by wireless and the sending of mes
r, sages from New York to Honolulu
o and than even wireless communica
p ton between fighting airplanes anC
e, ground stations far back Of the bat
e tie lines. Yet these accomplishment
! are a far cry from that day In 1881
g when two British cruisers at maneuv
d ers were able to communicate witt
'e each other by telegraph and the worl,
n thought that the summit of wonder
s. had been achieyed.-New York Sun.
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