"WIREDESS" WARNING OF A STORM.

Thames Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 10128, 9 December 1911, Page 5 (Supplement)

"WIREDESS" WARNING OF A STORM.

liven the ttwill lury oi an Atlautic atorni win now be ruouod of hall its terrors by means of wireless teiugruphy. Jttow thia was achieved in one instance, and how the wireless curronts raced and easily beat the wi«db of a hurricane, is toid in the prosaic language of the "Sixth Annual Ikport of the Meteorological Committee of the Treasury," issued last month. Among the 3955 messages from linen* during the year there was received about noon on January, 28th a message showing that about eeveu a.m. there was a. big storm: some distance to the west of Ireland. Storm warnings were issued immediately to the West Coast, and when a grout gale swept the obast in the evening boats in most of the ports were found prepared. tiANNON .MADE 0¥ iLHAOMEJR,. . According 1 to one account canuon' were built of the most hardened lea-' ther, girt about with hoops of iron and brass, the honour of having invtented this make being) a matter of dispute between Sweden (and Scotland. According to another, they had a core of tin, and were bound round with cordage. , ' In neither case could they be oxpected to last long, though we are ! told that they could be '^brought to discharge" as often an ten times in succession ; but when we reflect how few; are the rounds- that can be fired from the monster guns of our own day without renewal of the inner tulbe we cannot afford to sneer at the shortness of their life. They wen.' at any rate mobile, for they co aid bo carried on a pony's back or stacked together ■bjy the half-dozen ' ii> "brtn*ica.(ies of wood borne on wheels." ?1 .