WIRELESS RECORD

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 August 1925, Page 5

WIRELESS RECORD

ANOTHER ADVANCE

MESSAGES FROM ARCTIC

A SUCCESSFUL FEAT

<IY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT Receievd Aug. 5, 10 a.m. VANCOUVER, Aug. 4. A message from Arlington Heights, Illinois, states that lor cue first time in the history of radio, messages- were successfully transmitted to and from the Aifctio early on Tuesday, when the MadMillan expedition at Elijah. (Greenland) clearly heard from newspaipe-i men at station 9XN and replying within fifteen minute**. —Aius.-N.Z 1 . Liable Assn. NEW YORK, Aug. 3. By the reception o.f radio messages from the Etah on short wave length an unexpected advance has been made in wireless transmission. Hitherto the mysterious screen of the Aurora Borealis has prevented communication from Greenland and other Arctic points during daylight. [The Etah is one of the ships belong, ing to MacMillan’s Arctic expedition, now at a point in Greenland.]

NEW WONDER, TELEPHONE. WIRELESS TALK ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. HOUSES LIGHT El) BY RADIO. SOUTHAMPTON, June 20. A young American radio engineer, Mr. Bern ay Johnson, of New York, carried ashore- from the Ounard liner Aquitania this -afternoon a small case about three feet long and nine inches deep. This case contained tali the apparatus needed for his new .system- of wireless telephony, which, he declare**, i-s being used in America with remarkable success. “With this little- parcel, three interpreters, -and two assistants, 1 'have come to Europe to- conduct experiments in wireless telephony,” he .said. intend to get America with my .sys-t-e-ni from England, France, and Italy.

“I have also- another reason for coming -to -this country. 1 have just coneluded .satisfactory experiments with a system of wireless lighting of private homes. Electric current i« t-rams-mitted by wireless from a central station, and by pressing a button your lamp is lighted. You can take tlie lamp from one room to -another and light it at your convenience. “There are no wires of -any kind in my experiments. I. lighted fifty oi sixty houses, and obtained a brilliant light-. I used in my -apparatus a certain kind of mineral -salts sent out to me from England. Now 1 want to find out if 1 can get those salts in sufficient quantity to -make my invention a paying commercial proposition.”