MEŚAGE TO MARS.
FUNNY, NOISES IN REPLY
DOCTOR’S WIFE PUTS HER FOOT DOWN! United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright . (Australian Press Assn.! (Receded Oct. 26,i 0.35 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 24. In the small hours of thq morning a Cheswickite doctor, Dr. Mansfield Robinson paid 1s 6d per word to transmit from Rugby a wireless message to Mars reading:— “Love from Earth to Mars. God is Love.” He wanted it sent at thirty thousand metres, which he opined was necessary to penetrate the heavy air layer Mars-wards, but t.he post office said eighteen thousand or nothing. However, Dr. Robinson listened for a reply on thirty-thousand" metres, seven valves. He claims he got; certain signals, but they must be decoded. Professor A. M. Low witnessed the experiment and describes it as a failure. They got funny noises and quaint signals which could not be suggested as having come from Mars.' Mrs Robinson said: “There must be ho more foolishness in this house.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19281025.2.27
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10726, 25 October 1928, Page 5
Word Count
161MEŚAGE TO MARS. Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10726, 25 October 1928, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.