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Otira Tunnel Contract
(From "The Dominion," December 21, 1912.) Cabinet decided yesterday afternoon to cancel Messrs. McLean and Sons’ contract for the construction of the Otira tunnel, and fresh tenders for the completion of the work will be called immediately after the Christinas holidays. ♦ # * Within recent months some wonderful improvements have been made in wireless telegraphy, but the invention which promises to revolutionise the whole of the present wireless systems was recently made by a young French engineer, JI. Berthenod? Mr. Arthur Buckleton, M.1.C.E., of London, who is at present visiting Auckland, and who .was in France when the news of the invention was made public, states that JI. Berthenod’s invention, briefly, is the elimination of the sparks from the present wireless systems, and the simplifying of all the apparatus in a modern wireless equipment. It was necessary to have a transformer, an alternator, an induction coil, a condenser, and oscillator, and the aerials. Under the new scheme, however, it will be possible to get better results Jjom alterpatpri and.fterjals, L
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 72, 18 December 1937, Page 8
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17425 YEARS AGO Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 72, 18 December 1937, Page 8
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