WIRELESS TELEPHONE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15655, 25 June 1914, Page 7

WIRELESS TELEPHONE.

ADVANCE OF SCIENCE. UNKING UP NEW ZEALAND. [BT - tELEGBAPH.—PET 'S ASSOCIATION.] Wri-ZNG ,jm, Wednesday. "Wibeiess telephone communication between, say, Sydney and Wellington is not a* mere dream" said Mr. E. T. Pisk, of Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd., of 'Australasia, in the course of an interview, Mr. Fii'k made it clear that wireless telephony was no, longer to be regarded a* * scientific freak. Very rapid progress '-. -~ ivLig nude in the science and, with mproved continuous wave systems gradually being perfected by both Marconi and Telefunken companies, telephoning by wireless was now reaching the stage of a commercial proposition. Experiments had shown, said Mr. Fisk, that wireless telephony ■mi going to be of-great service over long distances and there seemed to be good prospect* of it displacing the present trunk telephone lines.

Tests recently showed that the voice sounded much more clearly through wireless telephone apparatus over a distance of, say, 150 miles than through an ordinary wire telephone trunk line. It did not take a prophet to foretell that Australia and New Zealand would be linked up by wireless telephone at a not far distant future. It was well within practicable prospects. &>. Fisk added that ships of the Italian i ary were now being installed with wireless telephones, and it was to bo expected thai, this method of communication over long distances, especially over rough country and over water, would come into greater use very shortly.