Mails.
THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY APRIL 20 1908.
Intimation.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
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IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.
FOR
NAPLES, GENOA ALGIERS, GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and HAMBURG...
EHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE
and YOKOHAMA
'MANILA, NEWGUINEA, BRIS. BANE, SYDNEY and. MEL- BOURNE
KATE
'STEAMERS
"PRINE REGENT LUITFOLD") WEDNESDAY,
Capt. H. Kirchner .........
Noon, 31d April
#PRINZ EITEL FRIEDRICH " About WEDNESDAY,
Capt. E. Malchow... 22nd April
"PRINZ WALDEMAR * 40
Capt. W. v. Sindan .......................)
THURSDAY,
† 23rd April
PRINZ SIGISMUND........? About FRIDAY, Capt. D. Leot
Jet May.
For further Particulars, apply to
YOKOHAMA and KOBE
NORDDEUTSCHER. LLOYD,
MELCHERS & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA,
Hongkong, 11th April; ty68.
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MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES..
FOR
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No. 1 DOCK. Length inside B14 ft. Width of entrance, top 95 ft.; bottom 75 it. Water on blocks, 27.5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours,
No. 2 Dock.
Length inside, 976 ft." Width of entrance, top 60,5ft: bottom 45.8 ft. Water on blocks, 26.5 ft. Time to pump out, hours.
TH
“HESE DOOKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama harbour and the attention of Captains and Engineem is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and ràpairing Vessels and Machinery of every description.
The plant and tools me of recent pallems for dealing quickly and cheaply with work and a large stock of material is always at hand,' (plates and angles all being tested by Lloyds' surveyors),
Dock, and for taking Salling Vessels in or out of the bay. The floating derrick is capable Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats am available for taking Vessels in or out of of liking 35 tank.
“WIRELESS."
apparently achieved a like effect by mechanical means-ic, by the extremely rapid repetition Pof sparks,
A STORY OF ELEVEN YEARS' PROGRESS. Today Mr. Marconi lectures at the Royal The production of continuous wards has. Iantiution on "Transatlantic Wireless Tele, made wireless telephony possible." So long as graphy," writes a correspondent in the London the trains of waves were separated by blank'in- Morning Leader of 13th March, Since his intervals of Ipager or shower duration, the ax- venika was Arst brought before that institution tremely zapid vibrations, of the human voice by Sir William Preece, in June, 1897, as could not be impressed on them. But already, tanishing progress has been made. At that since the date of Poulsen't invention, several time Mr. Marconi had succeeded in sending systems of wireless telephony have appeal messages across the Bristol Channel between ed: The "Telefunken" Company have pat of aine miles. He gradually increased the apparatus guaranteed up to 15 miles. The Penarth and Wetton super Mare-a distance the market sets of wireless telephonic distance to 14 miles (between. Alum Bay Walted States battleship fleat, which has just and Bournemouth) in April, 1898; to as reached the Pacific, in equipped with similar miles, when he reported the result of the yacht apparatus on the De Forest system, capabla race at the Kingatowa Regatta a few weeks of transmitting speech up to 5 miles, For Inter, and to 33 miles, when he asut. messages seļen states, that his system has been success- between Dover and Boulogne during the meet. fal up to 200 miles; while speech has been the Advancement of Science is the autumn, of Berlin and Lyngby, in Danmark-about. 256 ing of the British and French Associations for exchanged on the Poulian system' between 1899
miles.
To-day his system is maintaining regular principal Atlantic liners up to at least 200 miles communication in both directions with all the from shore; and is transmitting messages to many of them half way, across the Atlantic
tweed Clifden, in the West of ireland, and four months he has carried on a service: be from Poldho, in Cornwall; while for nearly
Glace Bay, in Nova Scotia, transmitting 1,000 words a day with singular freedom from error. Trus, as we prophesied before this service began, it has not interfered, and le not likely to interfere, with the cable companies' business.
Amarica carry auch, on the average, 10,000
Steam Launches of Steel or Wood, Lighters, Steel Buildings and Rools, Bridge Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises,
Tenders will be reads up when required and the workmanship and material will be The twelve cables between this country and
guranteed.
The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that words a day, so that the wireless service must of any port in the world,
Telephone: Nos, 876, 506, or 681.
Telegrams, "Dook, Yokohama," dodes A. B. C. 4th and 5th Edt, Liebers, Bootts, A. 1, and Watkins..
Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905.
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MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.
FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS. BETWEEN HONGKONG, CÂNTON AND
KOUANG-51.
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S.6,"PAUL BEAU," 1,900 foru, .54 kpota,
8,S. "CHARLES HARDOUIN,” 1,900 1094, 14 knots.
The speediest, most luxurioudly appointed and punctusí steamers on the lius. Depanare from Hongkong at so PM, (Saturdays excepted). Departure from Canton at 5.15 F.M. (Sundays excepted).
These caparb ateamers carrying the French Mail are £tted throughout with Electric Light
and Fans and ware specially built for this trade. Excellant coirise,
The Company's Own Wharf gear Wing Lok Street,
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Hongkong, 7th April, 1968.
Entimation.
The significance of this will appear from the length are useless for telephonic purposes. fact that cables of more than 60 or 70 miles in
Sensational claims are to be deprecated, but,
though "wireless can never suparede
telephony is just as likely to come ten years sober sense to say that Transatlantic wireless wires for a complicated exchange system, it is
hence at Transatlantic wirious telegraphy was ten years ago.
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multiply it output teafaid before it equais a A HOUSE in KNUTSFORD single cable. But, when every allowance is made, it remains a triumph of science of which.
No. 3, CANTON VILLAS. the twentieth century may well be proud that telegraphic signals thrown into the ether on the Irish coast can be received distinctly and accurately 2,500 miles away.
OIRDING THE EARTH.
Nor is Marconi the only inventor to share in these marvels. The Telefunken" station at Nauer, near Berlin, emulates Foldhu in keep. ing in touch with vessels in the middle of the Atlantic; a Frauch Government station at the Eiffel Tower maintalce communication with Casablanca, in Merocco, 1,000 miles away; and De Forest stalinos in the United States,
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Cubs, and Panama are said to be equally efficiant. Even ships-which are more limited than shore stations la the power which they. employ-are sending messages up to extraordi-CSTREET, Isle Hotel Baltimore, rent
HAMBERS in No. 7, WYNDHAM
nary, distances, 700 or 800 miles being fre- moderats. quently covered. The French criser Kidber, stationed at Casablanca, transmits messages regularly to the Eifel Tower,
A system of purely British origin, that of Sir Oliver Lodge and Dr. Alexander Muirhead, is making steady progress in various parts of the world. To give one exampin only of its com mercial success-the system han beto working uninterruptedly for some years between the Andaman Islands and Burmah, a distance of 300 miles, transmitting on the average 1,000 words a day,
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One Indication of the rapid, progrens al wire-
which were the rate up to got or later, are fea telegraphy generally is to be found in the development of " toning. "Untaped" systems, OPRAVARDO EL Point.
NE FOUR-ROOMED HOUSE, at
Apply to- now quite obsolete. The antuned or "whip- crack" system emits its enargy into the ether in the form of sparks which produco waves of great intensity, rapidly dying away. "tuned system, on the other hand, emits traïnu,
The
of waves of smaller intensity, which die away
less quickly. The difference is anilogone to that between a note struck: loudly on a damped pianą string and a nola sime more softly on the same string, but with the pedál down.
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The fact of a tuned transmitier on a distant receiver tuned to the same "note" is greater than that of an untuned transmitter,
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they am more lasting; while the effect op a receiver which is tuned to a different "note" is less, and interference is thus greatly reduced. As a result of tuning, mossages from different stations can now be received simultaneously by, stations quite close toget'ber, aven although the difference between the "wavelengths" used may be as littis aux-per cent.
Bom access-bit ints--has been achieved in directing the waves, which are uncally emitted equally in all directions. Marcosí en- deavours to secuen thisondby using "antennae," which are partially horizontal, the waves being transmitted with greatest intensity in the direc- tion in which the free end of the antenus points.
WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO. The Bellia Tosi directive system is another
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recant invention, In the usual typs of spark- ing circuit the sparks pats between the insulated antenna and, an "earthed" wire ; but in the Bellini-Toal sparking circuit the frea end of the antenna and the earthed wire are brought round and joined, so as to constitute a closed ring-closed, that is to say, except for the spark-gap-and it is claimed that waves emitted by this type of circuit have greatest intensity in the plane of the ring, med little or Bone at right angles to it,
But the great discovery of, the Jast two years has been the means of producing practically continuous wavas, Here, again, the naalógy of enand may, help us, Wa cannot produce a perfectly continuous note in the
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piano, even with the pedal down, because the N LEIGHTON HILL intensity of the waves begins to die away before wo cau atrika the saté again. ' In order to pro daca a continuous note we want an organ-pipa or similar lostrument. And in wirelen tale-
graphy it has, until recently, bean impossible
the wave-stage continuous—that is to say, Dua to repeat the sparks rapidly enough to make train has practically died away before the next has begun," H
WIRELESS TELEPLÓNY, Now this is changed, Poulsen, by means of an electric arc in bydrogen gas, claims to have produced waves of comparatively small-istan sity, but absolutely continuous. The German "Telefunken" Campany make a similar claims while Marconi, Fessendelų, and De Forest have
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