Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-08-05

Granting Wireless Patents is One Of
Busiest Places in Capital.
Everybody knows the wonders ~
the wireless. but ouly few really
comprehend the VAST field covered by
the science of photography. There is
perhaps ~. :! s!ngl" place ia al Amer
len where one can grasp 10 II certain
extent the SCOPE of the wireless. That
Is the United States patent Office. Go
there and YOU probably will be referred
To Dr William \. Kinnan. assistant
commissioner of patents. and II DIR.
Kinnan is not too busy he will tell You
some things about communication you
never knew before. says the New York
Times.
II would take weeks TO go through
all the records and volumes to tell the
story of wireless as recorded in the
files Of the patent office. With more
than one thousand patents involving ev-
cry imaginable thing that wireless can
or cannot do. and with between 1000
and 1900 others pending. the patent
office stan charged with the investign-
ton and granting Of wireless PATENTS
is one Of the busiest places in the ma
tional capital.
III i u pretty safe wager" said an
oflicinl of the wireless division. that
II any device Is concerned with wire
lrss you can find ont all about II some
where In our files Patents granted
aud patents pending number in the
thousands aud every day the number
Is Increasing This j. particularly true
with reference to wireless telephony,
the latest and perhaps the most Won
derful of III" radio developments. The
mn iority Of the patents now pending
or applied for relate 10 the receiving
phase Of the wireless science. with
Transmission suggestions running
close second hundreds II others have
10 do with improving existing patents
md these include every imaginable
proposition involving the use or adapt
ability of wireless In many instances
the new ideas advanced are m"ril"rious
and worthy Vt consideration 10y the
scientific and Industrial world"
The men who are drv"tins their lives
~ the study az this most wonderful Of
modern scientific wonders could be- NO.
curat"ly listed frnm the flies Of the
natent office. II IS great list thar
hcginS with Marconi and Fleming md
Pupin and ends with Young men and
women. some still in college and few
known outside of their own circles.
Every day or tw" II new name i added
10 the list and the evcr-increasing num-
her suggests the wonders yet ~ he
disclosed ms Il result Of radio research.
Patents TO Meet Every Need.
The New York Times correspondent
had the opportunity few days ago to
glanc" through some of the patent rec
ortlS relating 10 radio Development or
course the Inspection had 10 do only
with patents already granted. for the
secret of pending patents is a. care
fully guarded a. The money dies in the
Philadelphia mint.
There was one patent for u receiving
apparatus recently approved which. its
inventor believes. viii make posSibl"
the simultaneous reception of sound
and wireless telegraph signals: another
referred To II system for the radio con-
trul Of "moving hn;i.eS": another a
device that Silehrrd atmospheric
noises" IN the ease % the wireless t"le-
phone Still another was intended to
drown noises incident to the setting
up Of oscillations.
There are patents granted or pend
Ing designed to control hy wireless
boats. aircraft and NIL sorts "f vehicles
which il Is stated "nuy he controlled
and guided in the direction of II trans
hitting station" Another "simultane-
Gus" device which has been approved
and granted the protection of the pat
ent law j. expected Ia make possible
the simultaneous transmission Of
+ speech and signals. and another con
I templates the sending of wireless sig
mails under water which. II successful.
would "a long way toward solving
the communication problem involved
In the operation of Submarines.
There are patents involving radi"
/ photography. the pracricahility of
which has figured IN the wireless news
for several years past. one Is patent
described rs device for transmitting
and reproducing the forms and shapes
Of objects and solids NJ q distance
Another apparatus which has wealth
cred patent office investigation is de-
signed 10 eliminate the disturbing ef
fects on wireless running apparatus
caused by improvements Of the human
body"
There are patents 20 control the nc.
ton Of torp"docs. 10 safeguard the
navigation of ships. 10 simplify trans
mission on land. under water and in
the sky. aud Countless propositions re
hitting Ia thu minor details of the
science
pr. Kinnan IS IN" official who sits
in Judgment on the wireless inventor.
"Eleciricity." he said "in the light
ning'S flash splits the mighty OAK, vet
/ IN the small. silent vibration Of wire
less waves II must he multiplied n hun
1 ,lre1 fold Ia move the sounding dia-