WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5311, 24 June 1904, Page 2

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

That wireless telegraphy has come to stay is now a generally acknowleoged fact. The Atlantic - ' steamship lines, with genuine American entecprlse, have been the first to realise this, and a wireless to-day is considered essential to ©very first-class vessel. All our reliable war news, unless the effusions from Russian sources bo considered such, is obtained through the agency of wireless telography. A vessel fitted with an apparatm having a range of 100 miles gathers the new*.? at sea and transmits it to the British port of Wai-hai-wei, where it i« flashed to the world. In this connection it is interesting to note that from tb* wireless telegraphy station installed at Heligoland more than a year ago signals and telegrams were recently transmitted both to the steamer Cape Blanco, of the Hamburg South American Steamship Company, a 3 well as to a Dutch station installed in Amsterdam within the docks, with absolute clearness and without any mistakes. The system employed was th« "Telefunken” used by a German company. This result is the more remarkable or the distance is more Ilian 180 mile, while, in spite of unfavourable conditions. the instruments of a normal wireless telegraphy marine station proved quite sufficient without the necessity for resorting to such enormous plants as are used • by the Marconi Company. -