The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-07-15

4, WIN wore man l,OoO FatentS IN
voIving Every Imaginable Thing
Wireless Can or Cannot Do and
With 1000 to 5000 Others Pending,
the Patent Office Staff Charged With
Granting Wireless Patents Is One of
Busiest Places in Capital.
Everybody knows the wonders of
he wireless, but only a few really
comprehend the vast field covered by
the science of photography. There is
perhaps but a single place in all Amer
lea where one car grasp to a 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 A. Kinnan, assistant
commissioner of patents, and if DIR.
kinnan is not too busy he will tell you
some things about communication you
never knew before, says the New York
Times.
1t 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 5000 others pending. the patent
office staff charged with the inveStiga-
ton and granting Of wireless patents
Is one of the busiest places in the ma
tional capital.
at is a pretty safe wager" said an
official of the wireless division, that
If any device is concerned with wire
less you can find out all about ii some
where in our files. Patents granted
and patents pending number in the
thousands and every day the number
Is increasing. This is particularly true
with reference to wireless telephony,
the latest and perhaps the most won
derful of the radio developments. The
majority of the patents now pending
or applied for relate to the receiving
phase of the wireless science, with
transmission suggestions running n
close second. Hundreds of others have
to 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 meritorlous
and worthy of consideration by the
scientific and Industrial world
The men who are devoting their lives
to the study of this most wonderful of
modern scientific wonders could be ac-
curately listed from the files of the
patent office. II is a great list that
begins with Marconi aud Fleming and
Pupin and ends with young men and
women. some still in college and few
known outside of their own circles.
Every day or two a new name Is added
to the list and the ever-increasing num-
Der suggests the wonders yet to be
disclosed as Il result of radio research.
Patents to Meet Every Need.
The New York Times correspondent
had the opportunity a few days ago to
glance through some of the patent rec
ords relating to radio development. Of
course the inspection had TO do only
with patents already granted, for the
secret of pending patents is as care
fully guarded as the money dies in the
Philadelphia mint.
There was one patent for a receiving
apparatus recently approved which, its
inventor believes, will make possible
the simultaneous reception of sound
and wireless telegraph signals another
referred to Il system for the radio on
troll Of knowing bodies; another a
device that silenced atmospheric
,,f.neIf IL tho aagn Of tho ,piraIASc fa1az
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 by wireless
boats, aircraft and all sorts Of vehicles
which it is stated may be controlled
and guided in the direction of a trans
hitting station" Another "simultane-
GUS device which has been approved
and granted the protection of the pat.
ent law Is expected to make possible
the simultaneous transmission of
speech and signals, and another con.
templates the sending of wireless sig
nails under water. which, If successful,
would go a long way toward solving
lllt OlllihunlthlIo pioDltln hNoiNtii
In the operation Of submarines.
There are patents involving radio
photography, the ~practicability Of
which has figured in the wireless news
for several years past. One Is a patent
described as a "device for transmitting
and reproducing the forms and shapes
of objects and solids ut a distance
Another apparatus which has wealth
cred patent Office investigation is de-
signed to eliminate the disturbing eff
fects on wireless tuning apparatus
caused by movements of the human
body"
There are patents 10 control the ac-
ton of torpedoes, to safeguard the
navigation of ships, to simplify trans
mission on land, under water and in
the sky. and countless propositions re.
tating to the minor details of the
science.
DR.. Kinnan is the official who sits
in Judgment on the wireless inventor.
ELECTRICITY" he said, "in the light.
ning's flash splits the mighty oak, yet
in the small, silent vibration of wire.
less waves II must be lnultiDlied "a HIM.