WIRELESS TELEPHONE.
installation on steamer,
The new Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain, which was launched in -Tune by tha Prince of Wales, will carry one of the latest short-wave wireless telephone installations when she enters the Atlantic service shortly. This equipment will allow passengers to communicate with other telephone subscribers in Europe, Canada and the United States through appropriate land stations, and the Empress of Britain will thus form another link in the telephone network of the world. The input power of the transmitter will be 20 k.w., and the installation will be. similar to that recently bv Signor Marconi on his yacht Electra when he spoke from the Mediterranean to London, Buenos Aires. Rio de Janeiro, New York, Montreal, Bombay, Capetown and Sydney, covering practically all theworld. With this equipment, therefore, the Empress of Britain will also he able to take advantage of future extensions of the telephone services to link up with ad ditional land lino systems at almost anv distance, and give a world-wide telephone range from the ship.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20760, 31 December 1930, Page 4
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173WIRELESS TELEPHONE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20760, 31 December 1930, Page 4
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