LIGHTS BY WIRELESS
Marconi, from his yacht, switched on .the lights of the exhibition by wireless signals. The signals were picked up from the vaiht at Dorchester. England, passed by' landline to the Beam station sit Grimsby, and then Hashed round (he world to the Amalgamated Wireless Oo.'s station at Hock bank, Victoria, and finally-conveyed by landline to the Town Hall," Sydney.
An ingenious mechanism exhibited by Amalgamated Wireless at the exhibition was an ' automatic wireless alarm receiver, of the type now standard on overseas passenger vessels. If the operator is off duly, or is absent from his room, .when a distress signal is received, bells ting throughout the. ship.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17237, 17 April 1930, Page 11
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110LIGHTS BY WIRELESS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17237, 17 April 1930, Page 11
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