WIRELESS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 691, 16 December 1909, Page 7

WIRELESS.

I ,— —♦ TELEPHONY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. PARIS TO NEW YORK. (By Teleerapk-Press Association-Coprrlrht t ' Paris, December U The installation of Do Forest's Vireless telephone system between the Eiffel Tower in' Pam awl New'York'is 1 proceeding. ' ' 'V..C i -,'at 1110 ai A. iii '> ' AUSTRALASJAN CONFERENCE, DEFENCE' . PRIVATE. , Melbourne, December 15. ' The proceedings at tbo conference* on wireless telegraphy, between Australia, Now Zealand (Mr. Logan), and the Western Pacific (represented by tho 'High Commissioner), are being conducted in private at the request of the Admiral commanding the station (Sir Richard Poore), owing to defence matters being imolvcd. ' ' DE FOREST SCHEMES, i'' Some' time ago tho New York correspondent of tho "Daily Mail," referring to tho transAtlantic, wireless scheme mentioned in to-day's cablegrams, wrote "Di. Lee de Forest tells me that the contract he hah signed with the French Government provides for the immediate commencement of experimental worbbetweon the French military station on the Eiffel Tower and a station he will erect in October on the tower of the Metropolitan Life building m New Yoik, the highest inhabited building, in tho world. 'Owing to the immense altitude of both stations/ he obsorved, 'we have a great advantage over Mr. Marconi. Moreover, wo are independent of tho land telegraph companies, who have opposed all possible hindrances to tho wireloss sjstom. From tho loof i of the 'Metropolitan Life building, where the power station will bo flxod, to the top of the tower, a distance of 700 feet, antennae in tho shape of six or seven copper wires will be fastened.' "Mr do Forest IB also convinced that it will soon ](e possible to telephone from New Yoik to" Pons, and assures mo that he is confident that within two yeais ho will so 'perfect his apparatus as to enable wireless telephony to bo definitely established between this citj, Boston, Montreal, Chicago, Havana, and Pans" '