The Thames Star. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1909. EDITORIAL JOTTINGS.

Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10621, 22 January 1909, Page 2

The Thames Star. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1909. EDITORIAL JOTTINGS.

Bellini ainidl Tosi', two Italian scientists, who, with the sanction of the French Government,, have been conducting', experimiettiits in. wireless telegraphy- for the past .eighteen mioomthfl on. the coast of Normandy, announce that they have solved the problem of independent wireless coinm.unica.tiorL Thia result, they say, has bean secured by riteans of two rectangular aerials fixed at right angles, aiid so attached to, thie apparatus as to permit tha transmission of unequal currents. By a simple' law of mechanics these two electro magnetic fortes unite amd produce an electro maggiatio field and, tihla Heritaian waves are projected- in a single vertical plane, which cab. be? alternated ifastamtly by rneanis of the Bobine dev'.ee. Tlie invemitora say they have picked vnp ■rtfessages a,t will fixwn eveiy Eagligh wireless station, and from ships at sea, and that they have transmitted! messniges frota. Pourville to : BSiivre and otter poi'nfs without.tins waves being perceptible at other stations lying just off the linte of tranduissioa

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