WIRELESS TELEPHONY
EQUIPMENT OF SHIPS
RAPID PROGRESS MADE
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, April 12,
At the annual meeting of the MarconiInternational Marine Company today the chairman referred to the rapid progress made in equipping ships with
wireless telephony
The country continued to co-opcrato with the General Post Office in developing a wireless telephone communications network. For some time past it had been possible with a small-powered wireless telephone installed on a craft at sea some distance from land, to communicate direct with telephone subscribers on shore, while it was common knowledge that from large ocean-going Vessels perfect .conversations could talco place over thousands-of miles between passengers and subscribers on shore.
The chairman also referred to the increasing popularity of the Marconi sounding device, whereby" merely, by pressing a button anyone could ascertain instantly and without loss of time or speed.the depth of water under a vessel.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 88, 14 April 1934, Page 13
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