RADIO TELEPHONE
RAPID DEVELOPMENT
SHIP-TO-SHORE CONVERSATION
Cbbitish official WIBELESS.]
• (Rec. April 14, 8 a.m.) RUGBY, April 12.
At the annual meeting of Marconi’s International Marine Company, the chairman referred to the rapid progress made in equipping ships with wireless telephony. The Company continued to co-operate with the General Post Office in developing the 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 the land, to communicate direct with telephone subscribers on shore, while from large ocean-going vessels perfect conversations could take place over thousands of miles between the 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 without loss of time or speed, the depth of water under a vessel.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 April 1934, Page 7
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