MORE MARVELS OF WIRELESS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18062, 28 December 1920, Page 2

MORE MARVELS OF WIRELESS

‘•Every morning in the cabin of my Electra yacht, in the Bay of Naples, 2,260 nautical miles from London, I listen to a couple of columns of the latest news from the „ Fleet street newspapers, r :ad to me by wireless telephony direct from my staff in England.” So said Senator Marconi on August 18 to a correspondent of the London “Daily Chronicle.” Marconi hopes to complete by November next the series of special experiments he began last May. and by that time to have perfected easy talking from London to Egypt, and perhaps beyond. i He has two helpers only—Mr. I Paine, the transmitter, and the eni gineer, Alb”e —both of them Londoners. All three are spending much of their time in an endeavour to find means of preventing messages being intercepted. '“I shall not be satisfied,” said Marconi, “until our radio-goniometric apparatus can pick up any single vessel. which is known to be speeding within a given radius towards a given port, so that a ship in distress may no longer need to send forth it appeals wildly and hysterical}- to' all points of the compass; nor until communications intended for direct despatch to a particular town or a par, ticular newspaper arc as safe and confidential as a sealed letter.” When he has concluded his experiments. Marconi will embody the results in a monograph. TALK WITH AEROPLANE. “The Times” gives details of an interesting development in the use lof wireless telephony for business : purposes, a city firm telephoning in- | structions to an air pilot, whilst in flight, from an ordinary desk tele- ! phone in thei? business premises. The aeroplane, the City of Lon- ■ don, had started from Croydon, and was well on it way, Pilot Chattaway ‘ being entrusted with several messages by Messrs. Instone, when Mr. ■Samuel Instone, one of the directors, , was desirious of sending additional j instructions to the pilot respecting ! the position of some coal in France. |He immedi tely telephoned from his ■ office in Billiter street to the Croydon | aerodrome, and having expressed his ■ anxiety to reach the pilot, was at jonce connected up with the Air Min- ■ istry wireless installation. Within a ■ few seconds after his inquiry, “In--1 stone, Vimy; is Chattaway there?” ' there came a response from the pilot, and a long conversation followed. The | additional instructions were given by Mr. Instone, and on arriving in Paris : the pilot discharged his commission, i and within two hours a telegram was ! received at Billiter street, conveying ■ the information which Mr. Instone ! ■had sought