WIRELESS WONDER.

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 February 1916, Page 2

WIRELESS WONDER.

APPLIED TO MOTORS

For the first time in the history of the automobile, it has been demonstrated that a car can be started frour a distance by means of the wireless telegraph. This was proved at the Indiana State Fair, where the motor of a Model 83 Overland was started every five 'minutes by a wireless spark from the Overland headquarters in. Indianapolis, five miles away. A complete wireless outfit, consisting of motor generator, transformers, relays, and other details, was installed in the show windows of the Overland depot. This was connected with an aerial on the roof of the building, and by stepping the alternating current up from 110 volts 'to 16,000 volts messages could be sent 000 miles. The Overland car on exhibition at the fair- grounds, live miles away, w r as fitted, with a receiving apparatus and the necessary automatic switches' and relays for throwing on and off the electric current of the starter and magneto. An automatic switch regulated so as to allow the car to run for 45 seconds, after which the magneto was cut off, The starting of the ear was repeated at five-minute intervals. A time switch, installed to. oonection with the wireless outfit in the city, controlled the entire operation: From the time Governor Ralston, of 'lndiana, first started the car by touching a key at the sendingr static n, until the last clay of he .fail', ' : th"e starting and Stopping were/dbhe automatically.,