EXPERT IN WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 61, 6 July 1908, Page 7

EXPERT IN WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

A CLEVER LAD.

Even to-day there are young folks who make the mistake of thinking thab all the great things that are worth doing have been done; all the great discoveries made j all the-strange countries have been visited; all the grand inventions finished, and all that is worth finding out has already been printed in books Let us seewhat one young man has Jone.. There is fn one of the great scientific schools a student who, when fifteen yearß old, began iLe bludy of a new science called wireless leiegraphy..... Mony able and learned mm, both here and in Euro/o, had jt-idied the laws ot nature that gevorn the behaviour of 1 the mysterious that in wireless telegraphy appear to fiy from ship to ship or from Bliore to shore over miles of land and sea. Thebo men had invented curious machines wherewith they could send teiejjraohic messages from place to place without wires. Walter <L Willenborg learned of all that had been done in this new science, yet he did not sit down I lie and discouraged. Ho lecirlxl to try i h> ; , uwii way to/ learn at home ail u. wu u uuc-auy •known, and tnen ho would try co toarn more, i' ortuuatelj, waiter's iatiier saw that his son was in v.*;irncbt, and he litted up for him a lit lie room adjoining his bedroom as a laboratory and workshop, and Walter began his studies in his own little shop, where he could take up his work bright and early in the morning, and see his books, tools, and papers the last thing at night. Before long he began to plan a wireless telegraphie station in his own workshop at the top of tlio house. These things were to bo of his own invention, though, of course, based upon some of those already in use. In time he learned to be a master operatoi with the apparatus used in the new science. Curious to see what could be done on a very small scale, he invented and made a portable wireless telegraphic station that he could carry about in his pockets. From the top button of his coat he hung a slender' wire that reached to the ground, and so arranged that when he walked along a country road the wire would trail upon the ground behind him. In his pocket he carried a little battery. On a bit of board, as big as your hand, he placed a complete wireless transmitting apparatus, induction coil, baby sounder, and all, supporting this fairy station by fastening it to a belt around his waist. From this travelling station he sent messages from a country road to his folks at home, eight miles away, in town, telling them where he was and where he was going, and that he would reach home in time for supper!— From Charles J. Barnard's "A Young Expert in Wireless Telegraphy,' in the April 'St. Nicholas.'