The steamer Aorangi left ’Frisco on the 20th nstant with an American mail for New Zealand and Australia. M. A. D. Gabriel, wireless operator on the Maitai, when in Wellington told of the successful experiments that are being made in wireless telephony in America, Instead of the dot-and-dash language of the Alorse■ instrument ;hr human voice or any other noises can be projected by power into the ether and carried along in the same manner a.the Morse code signals. Whilst lying at anchor in San Francisco harbour, with the receiver to his ears, he intercepted spoken messages repeatedly and on another occasion listened to a gramaphono selection that was being played six or seven miles away.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 March 1911, Page 5
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