Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-20
NEW DIRECTION FINDER
PROVES BIC SUCCESS
Marconi Official Forecasts Great
Possibilities In Latest
Invention
CRoss ROADS OF AIR
Plan Mapping OF Skies in Letters
That Crack and Sparkle Under the
Mystic Drive of Wireless
Force.

LONDON. July 19.-Cross roads OF
the air, with an invisible traffic cop
TO direct the sable wings of night
swooping a;rp!anes in voice that
carries 10000 feet up through the void
below: the mapping of the skies in
letters that crack and sparkle under
the mystic drive OF the wireless forces:
the business man of the future die
tating over 5000 miles from midocean
TO stenographer in a New York
skyscrapcr, Here are the high points
III the coldly scientific dress OF a wire
less expert His name is Godfrey
Isaacs. and he is managing director or
the Marconi system in London.
/; is rarely that lsaacs let's the pub
lie into his confidence. When his
company projected the human voice
across the Atlantis by wireless tele-
him for an interview on the phenome-
non. he fatty refused. saying, with ty-
picsi British conservatism that he
dLant see anything TO beat bass
When took his brief published re-
marks a. a luncheon of the AiGwich
themes he had touched upon it was
with no assurance of success.
View Is Expressed.
Here, is what the managing di-ec-
Why, merely mentioned the new
wireless device called the direction
hnder-qn!,e simple thing and al
ready past the experimental stage as
10 rs use III conjunction with airDlane
nights or course. you know all bout
H. This without n flicker of an eye
NO? Well, here it is in a nutshell:
The wireless directional protector is
what YOU might call searchlight
without light II throws up into the
All not beam, but a signal which
can De made either widely dispersed or
concentrates and which registers on
an sirplane wireless receiving appa-
ratus just as the beam of a search
!!Ght registers on the retina of the
You catch the idea? An aviator.
say. IS flying by night over a fxed
course or he is dying by day through
fog or over fog which obscures the
ing up his landmarks
suddenly his wireless tells him:
THIS is Guilford.' and il continues
'eI!inG him the name of the town di-
rectlT beneath him until he has
passed out Of the zone of that par
ticuiar directional protector Next
Forest and shortly comes tho flash:
Ihis is Hcndon ardrome.' Then he
begins his wide circle for landing, for
mat is his destination.
Practice Works Out.
Mind you, this is not theory: it Is
practice II can he standardized ard
pat into operation tomorrow All over
me IN British Isles and the Con,inen,
where AVIATION routes have been and
may be established in future these
aerial semaphores-if YOU wish to call
his IS broashe DC aboa no Wnsn
pilot can lose his way, even N the
hcaviest darkness, or thickest fog
Mr. isaacs added that 1t did no, re-
SURE severe stretch OF the magma
ton to conceive in some near future
1 1os,, SKIES q over all The most populous
signals from thousands of cities and
airplane fleets guided by these unseen
fuoys as the argosies OF the sea today
wh.st!;ns lights. 1t was simply mat
ter Of organ:z tion. he declared
IN, me manasing director alluded to
cr!nS OF wireless possibilities This
was the perfection Of a system TO pre-
ven, The "damming" Of wireless mes
the same time.
In narrow and busy stretches OF
W Susen soch as the channel ths con
throush the air had rendered many
wireless attempts futile In the recent
pas, ana a i was painful matter Of
German wireless station at Nauen
ol,en succeeded in drowning wireless
spark: from allied sources which were
sent from weaker Instruments.
Messages No Barrier.
This has al been rect!hed," said
NJ lsaacs Nov no matter how
many messages are passing through
the air al the same time. there need
be no h!urrins or tanning" Ev APP
rEcation o: the dircctional wireless
70 sh!rs the lighthouses. vessels in
me fog or at night viii be able To
commUnicat" with other vessels or
with the shore a; will. and thus
major cause OF acc!rents at sea Will
with the establishment o: munic-
Ia! wireless telephone and telegraph
stations under control OF the govern
:nent. London can talk with Ed:n-
hurEh or DUBLIN with no delay and in
aH weathers and with no interference
from any other station.
Il think infinite possibilities lie in
trans i!ant!c telephony. When ships
are equipped with wireless telephone
apparatus there Will be no reason
Why a business man anywhere unon
me seven seas cannot at any time
address himself directly TO his office
~ home and converse with his sub
ord mates or the heads OF his firn.
To-day this Is possible in a re-
str,ctcd measure on both the Atlantic
and Faclhc Oceans, tomorrow IL Will
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