SIR OLIVER LODGE'S INVENTION

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 107, 6 May 1926, Page 14

SIR OLIVER LODGE'S INVENTION

Sir Oliver'1 Lodge informs the "Daily Express" that he has solved the problem of the wireless howler. It is a problem that has baffled the; world's experts for many years. Howling is caused by the listener who allows his set to oscillate. ,In doing so he spoils the- enjoyment of listeners for miles around. Sir Oliver Lodge has for three years carried out secret experiments at his laboratory at Eghain, Surrey, to discover how to avoid this, and has aow deposited a

patent. Full details will soon be made known. Briefly, Sir Oliver Lodge, who introduced tuning, and so made wireless communication without chaos possible, has abandoned it. The abolition of the , tuned aerial has abolished the howl. The change by which this has been brought about is a small one, but itmeans that the user of the new sets must make very delicate adjustments. The cost of making new sets, however, will be no greater than at present. The. new apparatus is technically called the "N circuit." Existing receivers will have to be altered, but the advantages of the discovery are so great that all listeners will welcome the change. Those who know what Sir Oliver Lodge has done consider it impossible that the Government will permit a set to be used that causes howling, when one is available that does away with all annoyance, including the jaming of distress signals. Sir Oliver Lodge met recently Mr. Melinski, who was working on similar lines. Now they are working as partners, and Mr. Melinski has evolved a supplementary patent of great value.