NEW SCOPE FOR WIRELESS.

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14769, 7 October 1921, Page 7

NEW SCOPE FOR WIRELESS.

■ -4 CHEQUE SIGNED 3000 MILES A WAV'. A fresh victory has been achieved by French science, says Hie Matin. If it had been forecasted a few years, or even a few months, ago that ihij words one writes could at the same moment be read in America, as if by someone looking over one’s shoulder, in tlie very shape in which the pen traces them; if it had been forecasted that a diplomatic signature, for example, could be appended to a treaty by wireless, or that a treaty or cheque could be signed 8000 . miles away, the reply would have been that one spoke of a fairy tale. Yet nil this is now actually possible. The inventor is Mr Delhi. The following autographed lines were reived yesterday from America: “The New York Times’ congratulations lo Lo Matin upon this new method of wireless transmission.” This was transmitted in a few minutes by wireless without Ihe assistance of any cable. “The future thus opened by Ibis new triumph of a French idea is unbounded,” adds the Matin. “Not only will there be no impossibility as lo Ihe transmission of judicial documents, autograph manuscripts, designs, and works of art, not only can one foresee that the signatures can thus be immediately attached to treaties and conventions when they are agreed to; but fresh guarantees are afforded by their autographed Iransmission. “Tile speed of transmiss'ion, lob. should be increased, for, whilst currents in Ihe earth or atmospheric conditions may render Morse signals illegible and necessitate retransmission. (hat is not (lie ease with Ihe TT'lin messages, in which interfering currents can only render the letters a liltie irregular wilhoul altering their form.”