New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-25
World Service
Bv Radio Phone
Is Planned Soon
Companies in Patent Merger
to Start Work at Once on
General Communication
With Europe and Vessels
Details Now Are Withheld
DR.. Alexanderson's Device
Is Installed at Several At
lantic Coast Stations

Steps to bring about general wire
less telephone communication with
Europe and with ships at sea are to be
taken Immediately as result of the
merger of patents between the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Company
and the General Electric and Radio
Corporation of America. This fact
was learned yesterday, although all
the principal officers of each company
concerned with the merger were out
of town.
A short statement from the Amer
lean Telephone Company announced
that, in order to carry out the pur-
poses Of the recent agreement with
the General Electric Company, the
former company had purchased a
minority interest in the Radio Corpo-
ration of America, and W. 8. Clifford,
second vice president of the telephone
company, has been made q director in
the Radio Corporation.
The merger between the two compa
MES Is the elimination Of campaign
the control Of wireless development
was gradually concentrated in Ameri
can hands. Up to the conclusion Of
hostilities in Europe the controlling
interest in the American Marconi Com
pany was held by the British Marconi
Company. American scientists and
engineers, however, succeeded in
bringing out many remarkable inven-
tions that completely revolutionized
the science Of wireless communica-
ton.
L. S. Company Takes British Interests
BY mutual arrangement the interest
of the British corporation was taken
over by the General Electric Company
and the new Radio Corporation Of
America was formed.
Since the negotiations that brought
about the present merger were COM
menced DR.. Ernest F. w. Alexander
son, who was known as the wireless
wizard Of the General Electric Com
pany, has been made chief engineer of
the Radio Corporation.
At the Offices Of the Radio Corpora
ton yesterday it was said that there
were yet several details to be worked
out in connection with the contract
York yesterday. He refused to discuss
the situation, other than to say the
merger was complete and the develop
ment of the possibilities offered by the
patents of the two companies would be
carried out.
New Alternator Is Installed
The famous high frequency alter
nator invented by DR.. Alexanderson
that revolutionized transoceanic wire
less has recently been installed at the
transatlantic station at Chatam and
Marion, Mass. These two stations are
in daily communication with Norway
and Germany. The two stations at Bel
mare and New Brunswick, N. j., are in
daily communication with Great Britain.
The transatlantic station at Tucker
ton, N. j., is being remodeled. Whether
this station will be used as test sta
ton for transatlantic wireless tele-
phony could not be learned. AS re-
suit Of the merger it is planned to
construct the largest wireless station in
the world at Rocky Point, Long Island.
During the war DR.. Alexanderson in
vented an apparatus that gives to wire
less telephony the same efficiency as
the ordinary telephone. This invention
permits the user to interrupt the per-
son he is talking to in the same manner
as In the ordinary telephone. This is
one of the inventions that make it pos
sible to link up the wireless telephone
with the ordinary land line EXCHANGES