WIRELESS EXPERIMENTS
SUCCESS IN SOUTH AFRICA. PIEST press message received. ; Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPE TOWN, December 7. (Received December 8, at 10.40 a.m.) Wireless experiments at Milnerton re veal greater success as the wave-length shortens. The tests, started on ninetytwo metres, are now working on sixty metres, and probably oven lower waves will he Iriid. At one period, using an amplifier, the operators, standing outside a hut with the door dosed, could read the signals emulating from head phones. Hie operators are satisfied that the signal strength was of sufficient intensity to admit automatic working at high speed. The ‘ Cape Times ’ has received the first Press message direct from England by wireless from Signor Marconi, who, replying to congratulations on the success of* the experiments, stated that experimental transmission to all the other parts of the Empire had been equally successful. —Reuter.
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Evening Star, Issue 18810, 8 December 1924, Page 8
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