Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-12
Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
40S Evans Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER

go far enough in his day dreams of
the future. were responsible today
for one of the most remarkable
Handouts" to come from a govern
ment department in long time.
Typewriting in the clouds while in
an airplane, with another typewriter
on the ground duplicating the writ
ten message, is the subject of this
government announcement.
In Washington, the "handout" is
familiar to all newspaper correspond
ents. It is a mimeographed state
ment or announcement from govern
ment press agents, private press
agents, corporation publicity men,
associations, leagues. Institutes, cru
saders and what not. Every news
paper bureau receives daily dozens
Of Handouts" sent by mail or mes
senger. Much of this is dry stuff,
or propaganda. Now and then there.
comes along something from the
government or some individual or
association that gives thrill.
Such a "handout" is this an
nouncement today from the navy de-
partment. 1t starts out by saying
the wonders of the radio grow more
and more remarkable. Then it re-
cords that the department is now
conducting tests at the naval air
station at Anacostia, just outside
Washington, and demonstrating how
to typewrite messages from the
: clouds.
Great Step Forward
"Typewriting in the clouds in an
airplane," says the navy depart
ment, while the ghostly hand of
radio duplicates the letters on key
board at a station many miles away
and the message is ree1ed off in
print-this it would seem is the ulti-
mate in the miracles Of science"
: Continuing it's story of typewriting
| in the clouds, the department in its
, remarkable report Of tests says:
"And this is the development
which will give to naval planes a
means of communicating in advance
of the radio telegraph and radio tele-
phone, now in current use. That
such a development will be Of inval-
culable value to all forms of avia.
-
lows inevitably on the heels Of the
: work now being done by the navy.
1.-THE business man Of the future,
on a hurried trip by air from New
| York to Chicago, will follow the mar
: ket quotations as they are reelcd
, off from the stock ticker carried in
the plane as readily as though he
were seated at his desk in Wall
street. Passengers will be able to
! send messages from the air which
} are punched out on the keyboard Of
! an instrument in the plane and re-
corded automat ically in stations To-.
Gated on the ground below, and the
navy is assured of a means Of accu-
rate communication between planes
of the air fleet and battleships so
essential to the close cooperation
. required in fleet operations.
J 1.-THE teletype, which is the name
of the device used in this means of
communication, has been adapted to
aircraft radio work by experts work
ing in conjunction with officials of
: the navy department, and the sue
fcess SO far attained assures the prac-
} ticability Of the scheme in every de-
tail.
How = Works
1
lteletype is mounted in a standard
type of Navy plane. It resembles
in general the commercial typewriter
in that a keyboard having the letters
of the alphabet and other conven-
tional symbols on it is arranged so
thatl it may be operated by hand.
Each key is connected to the radio
II installation in the plane and when
letter is struck on the keyboard a
radio impulse is sent out from the
antennae of the plane and is receiv-
ed at a station on the ground. The
similarity to the typewriter is COM
pleted in the equipment OF the re,
ceiving end of the device. When,
for example, the letter A is struck
on the keyboard in the air, the ra-
dioactive energy released travels to
the recording instrument and selec-
lively energies the type-letter A,
causing it to be reproduced on paper
carried in the receiver.
"The te1etype has been in use for
eight years in connection with land
b wire operations, but it's application
to radio use is a recent development
and the present tests now going on
at the Naval Air station are the
first that have been conducted in
air craft. Within the past year,
successful tests were carried on
with the teletype operated by radio
between the Naval Air station at
Anacostia and the Bureau of Stand
ards in Washington, a distance Of
nine miles. This laid the founda-
i ton for further work in connection
with airplanes.
Great Thing For Navy.
GAS the tests are carried on at
i present, the transmitting instru,
ment of the teletype is mounted in
the plane and the receiver is located
on the ground at the station but
experts who are carrying on the
work point out that reversal of
i this operation, where the recording
instrument is carried in the plane
and messages are sent out to it
from ground stations, is a develop
ment merely involving detail. AS
applied to the navy, the radio tele-
type will be a great improvement
over methods now in use for COM
munication between ships and air.
craft. With the printed message
reeled off on the receiver, much Of
the chance for error will be elimi-
mated. This will be a marked step
in advance, in that it will allow of
explicit directions to scouting and
combat planes In flight by the COM
rnander-in-chie of the fleet and will