WIRELESS PLANT BURNT.
VALUABLE INSTRUMENTS AND DATA LOST. LONDON, Dec. 18. The private wireless station of Captain Eckersley, chief engineer oi the British Broadcasting Company, was burned down on Thursday night. He found everything (including three 130 ft masts) ruined on his return this morning from Brussels, where he attended a wireless conrorence. The damage is estimated at £IOOO. Special valves and a transmitter, with which he was experimenting on short-wave lengths on behalf of the companv and with which lie had obtained results which promised to revolutionise broadcasting, were destroyed. Data put together during the six months* experiments was also lost. The destruction of the station is attributed to the fusing of an elecric wire.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 January 1926, Page 5
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116WIRELESS PLANT BURNT. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 January 1926, Page 5
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