The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-08-03
SOUND WAVES
AND WONDERSOF RADIO
SCIENTIST TELLS OF MARVEL
Gus SPEED OF RADIO
TELEPHONY.

The most marvellous and mysterious
thing in maerosom is the universal
ether From the ether all the worlds
have been Quarried. and from the
ether all life has sprung. says Hudson
Maxim.
The communicating of the ether in
the radio service is thing so wonder
ful and masterful as to make the
ghosts gaze
Alexander Pope said:
Superior beings when of late they
saw
\ mortal man unfold all Natures law
Admired such knowledge in an earth
ly shape,
And showed Newton as we'd show
an ape"
Let those superior beings look at us
now. and when they see a small boy
with a self made mechanism holding
wireless communication with his play
mates over vast intervening spaces,
they may we'll show us for something
more than apes They may now point
us out braggingly to one another. and
boast common brotherhood.
Makes Sound Fleet
Radio telephony. with its speed of
$4,000 miles a secOnd-that of light
gives fleet feet to slow paced sound
If, in telephoning by wireless from
New York to San Francisco the voice
should travel at merely the speed of
sOund-10SS feet per second-it would
take more than four hours for the
first word to reach the ear of the list
ener; whereas, by radio the voice is
transmitted at the speed of light, so
that there is no appreciable lapes of !
time in the transmission OF the voice |
to any distance on the earth's surface. !
If, however it were possible to es-
tablish wireless communication with |
the nearest fixed star. Alpha Centauri,
1t would take four years even by ra-
lilo speech. to cross the gap. With
merely the speed of sound 1t would
take 100000 years for speech to
reach the Centaur.
Startling Statement.
If one of our amateurs should pick
up a radio message sent out to us
rom some planet circling a sun on
he far frontiers of the Milky Way,
he would know that the sender of the
Message lived and died more than 25.-
100 years ago. and that the message
lad been on the way all that time
md this too. coming at the speed of
ight-1S6,0O miles a second; for the
light by which we see such a star left
loara Ok mn xraorc 700 vvbav tho Cro
Magnons inhabited Europe, along with
he bison, the saber- toothed tiger, the
Hairy mammoth and the woolly rhin-
,cerous.
From that time 10000 years had to
PASS before Egypt appeared on the far
lorizon of history. Babylon. Greece
Rome also rose and fell during the
would reach the inhabitants of the
arth, and also before the inhabitants
# the earth would have the skill and
to receive the message.
Ether Causes Vibrations.
The ether about us is in q constant
tate of vibration of inconceivable in
ensity but the wave lengths of the
iDIdllOhS are SUCH tndt lHey pass
through the space we occupy as freely :
S though it were vacuous, and con-
we are unconscious of their
resence. g
Yet all the intense agitations of the \
Their do not interfere in the least with I
he transmission of our radio mes
ages, for there is room down in the =
sgions Of the ultimate for many diff t
srent agitations to abide together
ithout interference. There are )
PAGES which are relatively as enorm-
rs between things infinitely little as
iere are between the starry magni-
ldes of the heavens Il