New Britain herald., 1929-07-12

for instance, imagine that there will ever be say 50,000 individual wireless telephone subscribers Tn London conversing simultaneously to 50,000 individual subscribers in New York or vice versa. The num- Der of wave-lengths available for the transmission of messages through the ether. It is not the same as providing an unlimited number of wires for landlines.
 Recent Discovery
 But the possibilities of the de- velopments of wireless telephonlng were considerab ply increased by our latest discovery, the superimposing of telephone and telegraph serv- ices. By means of this we can transmit simultaneously over the same circuit, one or more tele- graphic messages and a telephone conversation. This, of course, re- duces operating costs considerably and at the same time enables us to obtain the utmost use of available ether space.
 Asked whether he thought he would ever succeed in making wireless transmission absolutely secret, the Senator declared that already, owing to the great speed (about 100 words per minute) at which messages were transmitted at the present time, unauthorized persons received only a 'formid- able tumble of sounds which was quite unintelligible. Amateurs, he explained further, would be pre- vented from installing the proper apparatus enabling them to disen- | tangle the tumble" CD On ac- count of the prohibitive cost of the apparatus required. CD Because governments only were empowered to license such stations. and would not do so. (S) Because this ap- paratus would be very difficult tc work unless the user secured ln- | formation from the sender enabling | him to tune his set to the right pitch.
 Tn fact" he added T would gc as far as saying that today it is easier to tap landlines than il
 would be to tap the wireless"
 He was not so interested. for the present at least. in the problem ot secrecy, he said, as he was in the improving of transmission:
 Now we have succeeded in transmitting the waves across l oceans, we must get them to work uninterruptedly, regardless of at 1 mospheric conditions.
 | Greatest Benefit
 Asked what in his opinion was the greatest benefit that had ac- crued to humanity through the us2 | of his discovery, he said it was the | fact that by means of wireless and | broadcasting the peoples of the world had been and were still be, ing brought closer together.
 Mans great superiority over animals" he said, lis that he cal. 1 communicate with his fellows by speech. And anything which tends to increase this facility for instant inter tends, in my opinion. to uplift human nature.' i He added that if only on account of thousands of spontaneous dem onstrations of gratitude whicl many people, including humble sea men and their families, had sen him after their lives or the live: of some loved ones had been savet at sea by wireless, he was "optt. l mistic as to human nature" He | has, he said, filed all these touch, ing tributes away flor keeps.' Ht said that perhaps among the trib- utes he has received. the one which he values most. is the gold tablet which was presented to him ir New York by the survivors of the | Titanic"
 | Such acts of gratitude" he said have always touched me profound 1 ly and have made me feel good.'