WIRELESS AND PEACE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18664, 21 March 1924, Page 12

WIRELESS AND PEACE.

PROGRESS OF INVENTION.

AUSTRALIAN'S IDEAS.

THE BROADCASTING PROBLEM.

That the "advance of wireless telegraphy should be directly associated with the furtherance of the peace of the world is the view firmly held by Mr. George A. Taylor, who has passed through Auckland on his way from Sydney to England, and thence to Geneva, where he will attend the forthcoming sitting of the League of Nations. Mr. Taylor is a wireless enthusiast, and he hesitates to indicate what are the limits of possibility associated with that invention. He holds the view that invention should be encouraged for constructive, and not destructive, purposes, and in 1922 he formed a board in Sydney to further invention. The peace of the world, he suggests could be fixed in perpetuity if invention tending to construction received the recognition and support it merits. Having started his movement in Australia, Mr. Taylor laid the matter before individual members of the League of Nations at Geneva, in 1922. Upon his return to Sydney he published a book entitled, " The World of Peace," wherein he set forth reasons why the League of Nations should father the idea of encouraging invention. He indicated that encouragement such as he desired would uipply the League with a means of attaining its end. A committee was formed by the League to consider the idea and that body will present its report at the forthcoming conferenve at Geneva. . Speaking of wireless telegraphy as it exists to-day, Mr. Taylor says it has no national boundaries. Wireless telegraphy is' international, and he looks upon the advances yet to be made in this science as all tending to the promotion of world peace.. Some years ago he went closely into the possibility of utilising wireless for the transmission of drawings, and not satisfied with achieving success in this direction he followed it up by devising means of transmitting photographs in natural colours. The machines used for this work are being taken by him to the British Exhibition and later they will be exhibited at the next conference of the League of Nations. '"■'■'■'-. Touching ■ upon the outlook for wireless in Australia and New Zealand Mr. Taylor expressed the view that New Zealand would be -well advised not to follow Australia's example regarding the use of single-wave sealed sets. He is an advocate of the open receiver for all waves, with a special fee to be charged oh all licenses for the encouragement of efficient easting. "What lam aiming at," he said, "is the freedom of the air for all the peoples of the world." Prior to his departure from Sydney this wireless expert was entertained at a farewell luncheon by the Association for Developing Wireless in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, of which organisation he is the president. Professor Sir Edgeworth David, speaking on that occasion, referred to Mr. Taylor's work in the field of practical aviation, remarking that he had flown in an aeroplane without an engine in 1909. Ho was the first to send wireless messages between moving trains and before the' war he showed how centres of sound and wireless waves could be located, a scheme used widely during the Great War in locating enemy artillery.