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THE
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WILLIAM RUSSELL:
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WIRELESS WONDERS, CONCERT IN A MOVING CAR
Why be dull on a long motor ride now? Wireless telephony is to-day able to bring entertainment inside the car to while away the tedium of the Hours. Broadcasting has received a good deal of attention of late, and this latest development of it. certainly is not the least wonder-striking. There is no need at this time to explain how a message or concert is received by wireless telephony in the quietude of a home built on unshakable fouadations, the fixed serial that intercepts the waves" being attached from an upper window or chimney- stack to a neighbouring tree. It is quite another matter to deliver the message or the music to travellers in a motor car dashing along at a fast pace along.town or country roads.
The Marconi Company took up the problem with the co-operation of the Daimler Company, Coventry. A great many new difficulties had to be met and overcome before a satisfactory solution could be found. That success has been achieved was proved by a striking demonstration carried out one evening on October. Two Daimler cars set out from Marconi House, in the Strand, for Chelmsford as the light was beginning to fide, and as each was fitted on the roof with a contrivance in appearance not unliken catherine-wheel-in each case the car's aerial-they attracted much curious attention when passing through the City and East London. "Before City streets were, left Marconi House was speaking, and passengers in the cars, with telephones to their ears, were surprised to find that as they journeyed along they could hear each spoken word distinctly, even amid the bustle and roar of the busiest traffic of the day.
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A mere curious experience was that gained on the return journey. The cars left Chelmsford at a quarter to eight, and at eight o'clock the Marconi experimental station at Writtle, three miles beyond that town, began broadcasting the items of s concert. "Hullo, C.Q.," was the first in-
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the code for everybody listening in-greet- ings to the unseen passengers followed, the programme was announced, and the music opened with a piece' by 'collo, and piano. As the cars moved along the quiet
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string, the treble of the piano, at times loud, then falling in a gentle cadence, were beard as plainly as if in a quiet concert room. An orchestral piece for more in- struments came next, then the human voice in a solo.
DISTANCE ELIMINATED. The cars had rug fifteen miles from Chelmsford to the outskirts of East London when the concert ceased, having lasted buf
hour, and as it slosed down the tunes wera de clearly heard as at the fint. Dir tance made not the least difference. It was easy to listen as the vehicle bowled long, taking bumps and granite sette, asphalte and good reads, in the stride, the music all the time sounding so loud and clear that, as a lively measure was set up, one's feet involuntarily beat the time. Vibration leaves no effect. Each passenger had the telephone to their ears, closing them against exterior sound, but by the fitting of a "lood speaker" it will be possible for the amplified voice or music to bu heard dis- tinctly without such aids all over the car.
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Little apparatus is employed. For the experimental purpose a seat was taken out of the motor car, tresales rigged up, and upon them was placed a Marconi six-valve set, linked by wire with the serial on the car. roof. The separate telephone wires were attached to a block, linked in turn with the valve set. Apart from a tiny electric light illuminating each valve, and another from the magnifier, there was little to be seen; and when the apparatus is adapted to the Daimler car commercially, the whole of it will be stowed away out of sight beneath the footboard of the car, and the seating will not be interfered with; the only visible siga of fitting for listening-in being three small controla by the seats. The aerial will also be The wheel of life, or zootrope. Be it was concealed in the car. Every car so provided called, was invented nearly a hundred years in the future will be able to give those who ago. It was an instrument which made travel by it the concert, or the latest news, a number of pictures, when looked at in or the great speech of the night, or whatever succession through a slot, resemble one else is broadcasted, as they make the moving picture. It was, however, only a toy, and was in no way the real parent journey home or into the country.
of our moving pictures.
HOW THE CINEMA WAS INVENTED.
The real beginning of tha, "movies" came into being rather by accident. An Englishman, enlied Muybridge, emigrated to the United States, and there; by and by, became Director of Photographic Surveys to the US.A. Government.
Various causes of interference with the sound have already been eliminated, but there is still scope for research with a view to improvements. A proof of how sensitive is the apparatus is that the sparking in magnetos of passing cara is clearly audible in the telephone in the car carry While engaged on his duties in ing the apparatus that cause of disturbance California, the old question arose as to is eat out by sheathing its magneto in whether a trotting horse ever has all its copper.. On quiet country roads, better four feet off the ground at once, and Mr. results are obtained than in the busy Maybridge was asked to settle the point. streets of-towns; but nothing was more. A test was accordingly arranged, when fermarkable than the success with which observes under his direction took "B listening in could be enjoyed even number of photographs of a horse trotting. when moving in the busy traffic crossing: the results showing that at one point in before the Mansion House and in the crowd-its stride sil the animal's feet were clear of ed Aldgate High-street. The whole results the ground.
are as astonishing as they are unexpected. At a later test Muybridge arranged a Whit possibilities may lie in this curious number of cameras along the "track, each, application of wireless telephony none can connected with a thread; the horse as it say. It is anticipated that the fitting up trotted broke the threads, and released the of cars for the purpose will begin in a few shutters of the camera, so taking its own weeks Daily Telegraph
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So successful were the results that Muybridge went on experimenting, finally perfecting what he called his zoopraxiscope, an instrument designed to show the actual movements of animals photographed from Ke.
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pondent says that the chief feature of the The apparatus was intended for scientific MISS TORA INOKUCHI industrial situation continues to be the purposes only, and Muybridge had no seasonal activity in certain directions thought that his learned discovery would such as the outlery and plate trades of ever develop into the world's most popular MRS. HAN INOKUCHI LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL U fom
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the remarkable maintenance of breiness Amusement.
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