WIRELESS AND LONGITUDE.
Several determinations of longitude have of late been made by means of wireless messages, but the most ambitious attempts of this nature has just taken place between Paris and Tunis, wireless signals connecting two clocks, the comparison of which decided the longitude. The signais-travelled the whole distlance in time which works out at nearly 200,000 miles a second.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 12 June 1912, Page 7
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61WIRELESS AND LONGITUDE. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 12 June 1912, Page 7
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