WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 148, 25 June 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

USEFULNESS OF THE SYSTEM AT

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At. the United Service- l'£tiasfoiQßs ■■'. •■'• London, Captains-Kennedy, * R.E.,'*^ * Second Division Telegraph Battalion, delivered an address on the subject , of Avireless telegraphy, tie remarked tbrt the greatest sphere of tise.rluess M * of the sj'stem Avould be at sea. if .„, lighthouses Avere equipped Avith. a Msimple arrangement, electric as weH'*^* as light flashes could be emitted to + guide ships in thick and foggy Aveather, and ships properly fitted Avo\ild have no difficulty in making the lahd - in any Aveather. At important port's an incoming ship would be able to herald'its approach,* while 'outward bound ships could receive the very, latest neAvs. As applied to the naval service, information could in tinia of % war be sent to port from great distances bjr placing intermediate ships as relay stations. Passing cruisers could communicate with the shore Avithout coming AA'ithin A'isual range by day or night, A friendly craft entering a fortified harboiir\ at night - ..'_ could make knoAvn its identity, end so escape immediate destruction: Orders might also be communicated between, the various ships of a squadron Avhen^ OAving" to -atmospheric conditions^ ordinary means failed. The system appeared to the lecturer to be invaluable,* to a fleet manoeuvring under ;-.0v.0? '■''','■_ of darkness. In applying that sys|enf * y on shore several difficulties had to .be OA Tercome, but it Avas not foreseen that it Avould at all affect the exist" ing telegraphs.