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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 2 August 1913, Page 10

Every man with a little ingenuity may have a wireless installation in hi_bedroom, according to Mr A. A. Campbell Swinton, the English consulting engineer. "I was told in Paris recently," said Mr Campbell Swinton, "that by connecting suitable instruments to the iron balustrade round a house it was possible to 'tap' the time signals from the Eiffel Tower. It occurred to me that by a somewhat similar expedient it would be possibleto hear the Admiralty signals m London. T connected a wire to an iron bedstead with a wire mattress at the top of the house and then brought the wire downstairs to a wireless receiving apparatus, the other end of which was connected with a water-pipe. I found I could hear the Admiralty speaking quite plainly in code to ships at sea, and could make out the time signals from the Eiffel Tower."