MYSTIC FUTURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17234, 14 April 1930, Page 10

MYSTIC FUTURE

CREWLESS BATTLESHIPS SHIPS OPERATED BY WIRELESS MR. FISK'S FORECAST SYDNEY, March -7. Mr. Ik T. .Fisk, manager director pf Amalgamated Wireless (A/sin), Lid., referring yesterday tO' the 'wonderfully successful experiment carried out lay (lie Man-hose Marconi, when he .switched on Ihe. electric lights at the Sydney Town Hall by win,dess waves sent from Genoa, gave a glowing picture. of the developments of science in the. near future. “The successful experiment made oil Wednesday, night.he;s«hi-, “was by far the greatest. ever attempt-odeiu coat roiling power and electrical apparatus at. a distance. Marconi, however, has particularly asked me to make it clear that this 'Whs not a demonstration of the transnussiop of power by wireless; he believes that will come, and he thanks Hits experiment points definitely to such possibilities; but he is anxious to prevent wrong conclusions being arrived at. . “On this occasion,” Mr. Fisk went on, “Marconi, -from his- yacht at Genoa, actually caused w switch to be closed at the Sydney Town Hall, which released approximately 100 horse-power of electrical energy, and cbrilliuhtly illuminated the exhibition with 2800 electric lights. “The control of mechanisms such as this at a distance by wireless has air ready been applied on a limited scale across relatively short distances to the control of crewloss battleships and to guiding torpedoes in the water from aeroplanes, also to the starting and stopping of fog signals from a distance,” -said Mr. Fisk. ‘-‘The development of these principles will have many useful applications, and I think they will eventually lead to the stage where it will be possible iu ‘Sydney to operate an automatic- telephone exehange in Jiondon. l Ultimately, however, wc can expect to see the bigger development inthe -actual transmission of useful upiantit its of power without conducting mains or cables, and we may visflaldse that when tiiis reaches a practical stage it will be possible for ships -to go to isea without carrying. fuel, being propelled bv electric motors operated by power continuously supplied from wireless beams on land, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that -similar developments will be applied to aircraft. Jt would be partieuiariy advantageous .in ihe case of aircraft, because it would abolish the present risk of, the failure of fuel ami-reduce the loads to -l»e carried. • All such applications will* of course, be dependent largely upon the future, development of beam wireless, enabling the •energy to be concentrated, into particular directions” ■ -