DEEP SEA SOUNDING.
CODE MACHINE,
The Methods In Use Today. Experts Baffled for Months.
United
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Then we tried it with nine pairs af other synchronized master- wheels, and here are the nine combinations of latters, each of
word
which spelled out the "noon" in England on the receiv-
de-
noon
In the new number of Cham-: A machine which looks like ing board after n-o-o-n had been ber's Journal C. K. Greenwood combination typewritter and pho-sont from the sending machine: explains Deep-Sex Sounding." Dograph, and which creater, trans- Yzfd. Rozk, Lism Ether, Vydt. touching first upon the manner mits and decodes an automatio Gokg, Meze, Him, and Buft, if in which unexpected banks are code capable of more than 11 mil-there located, buoyed, and charted and lion combinations, bas
js any human the difficulties due to curren's and invented by a man in Oakland, out of any of those combina-
been loader who can make incorrect calculations. In deep sea Cal., and is now under test by tions and they sounding methods are different: agents of the
are only 10 At depths of less than a thous Government and five foreign combinations and 403,000,000,000.- States out of nearly 12,000,000 possible and fathome lead weighing governments. The inventor is thirty pounds is used, and in the Edward H.. Hebern, and he has would be child's play to him. Here | 000,030,000,000 of codes—a miracle. case of such a sounding the lead been at work on the machine for can be recovered. For depths 12 years, his first patents, received
is another one: Pakbubblih, greater than this, however, the about five years ago, being for anThat is the name, made on three Immwgbzimv, Szbocvr/guk. "Driver" detaching-rod is the instrument shout six feet in height differently synchronized best apparatus. In this arrange by three feet square. The present wired wheels for one of the best- meat the lead sinkers are hung, and perfected machine, however, known rivers in the United States, by means of a wire sling, centralis 8 by 10 by 6 inches and weighs ly upon the vortical sounding a trille more than six pounds, same number of letters as the Every code word contains the tube, which is fitted
with about the weight of a portable word it represents, but two com flap-valves at top and bottom, typewriter. opening upwards. As the lead
Externally, the invention con
necessary is
and
MONDAY, MAY 21, 1923.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
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000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ofcodes bination of letters in the 403.- drops through the water the flap-sists of a rectangular box, with is the same in any two instances THE Talres open and the water rushes & universal typewriter keyboard for the same word in English through the tube. When the covering the lower half sounding-tube strikes bottom two of the front face, and three into enemy hands, all that is Should one wheel be lost, or fall! things happen. In the first place, rows of small dials, each the tube is driven into the "soft conta: Ding · letter of the
to stop using its into the taterior, where it is im- front. Projecting from the top is of the wheels easily in one pocket. soze, which is forced upwards alphabet on the upper half of the mate, and use two other wheels. A field operator can carry a dozen prisoned by the tower flap-salve. a roller, not unlike the roller on and by prearranged signal informa Secondly, the weight of the the early phonographs which sinkers, which hitherto are operated by means of a wax wheel he is uring, so that the re-
has
the receiving operator which been taken by the sounding cylinder record. The machine wire authomatically releases the however, has no records, and the mate to it.
ceiver can drop into his machine. the wire sling which sustained keeps no record of the messages, them, and the sounding-tube is which pass through it. In the
TAPPING" CHANCES. Hebera estimates that should
now free to be withdrawn by the middle of this cyclindrical pro-the air or the wires be tapped by sounding-wire.leaving the sinkers jection at the top is a small re-any intruder, that intruder would bebind on the bottom. The weight movable solid wheel about the have one chance in 11.831.376 of of the sinkers used varies between size of the metal spools used to deciphering the code, and that it fifty and seventy pounds, accord carry the ribbon on a typewriter would require the full attention ing to the depth of the water: Ranged at equal intervals around of a code expert, working 12 hours When sounding, a registering the run of this wheel or spool, day, 26 days a month, fo: 100 thermometer is usually clipped to are 26 apertures, each containing years to decode one word. It the line a short distance above the letter of the alphabet. Each should be understood, in connec lead. Special soundings are also and all of these letter terminals tion with this, that, even were the made in order to ascertain the tem- are wired to a central post at the intruder possessed of the machine perature of the water at various core of the wbeel.. depths. A thirty pound sinker is
that Hebera has invented it would) THE WHEEL A SECRET. used. and the registering ther
be useless to him, with all the mometers are attached to the lipe By the internal wiring of these let-had all the wheels possible, and, This wheel is Hiebern's secret.wiring combinations ualess he by means of metal clips, usually ters to the central connecting post on top of all this, knew which at intervals of a hundred fathoms.-the machine being operated by wheel to use, for no one of the down to a depth of a thousand electricity he can make 21,881,376 nearly, 12,000,000 wheel-combina. fathoms. For the first hundred combinations, resulting in 403, tions is fathome below the surface smaller | 303. 146, 321, 064, 400,000 entirely message from any other wheel able to decode that intervals are customary.
The fascination of the process is no key, number, word, or other the synchronized mate.
different and distinct codes. There except that wheel to which it is! is not overlooked by the writer device by which any one of these ventor, of course, is nut.disclosing The in- A rounding of 3.000 fathoms codes can be read. Agents of the the secret of the wiring of the requires 75 minutes for its accom United States Government learn wheels, but he claims that, even, plishment, and the approximate ed this when they worked for 15 were this fully understood, it time of descent will be 30 ronths trying to decipher one could not be used to solve the roinutes."
The imagination grasps more certain even one letter in that since the time, required would message, and were unable to as-code sent by any other wheel. readily the tremendous signific
message. ance of such a depth as the wire While Hebern's master-wheeled result of the massage would be great that the decode runs out steadily and rapidly. is a secret, the operation of the useless by the time it had been minute after minute, for half an machine with the wheel in it is obtained.
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The rainbow jellies fill
float:
And
And, lilting where the laver
lingers. The startish trips on all her
fingers; Where 'neath bis myriad spines
ashock,
The sea-egg ripples down the
rock;
An orange wonder dimly
guessed,
From darkness where
cuttles rest,
the
Moored o'er the darker deeps
that hide
The blind-white sea-snake and
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THE SOLE NECESSITY.
be yo
hour; while the seventy-pound open to inspection by anyone. This brings out the reason that! lead plunges downwards from the and appears to be very simple. Hebern discarded the idea of a ma- Jambent blues and greens of the The sending operator writes the chine which would keep a written surface waters to the black depths message be is to send in plain record, or which would show the below: while it passes, stage by English on the key on the lower actual code letters as sent from stage, through a magic world. balf of front of the machine, the master-wheel of one inschine ...Where the branching coral which operates either over wires to the master wheel of another.
hives Unending strife of endless lives: these keys operating
or by wireless. The striking of The operators of the machines, Where, leagued about
on the especially in time of war, never the master-wheel, causes it to send would have in their machines or out a massage in code which it on their persons-except in the forme. The receiving machine, case of the receiving operator. in which has been inserted at who probably would be in a place wheel synchronized to same combination of writing and zone-any written record of what the of safety, far from the danger letters as the wheel on the sond-had passed, through the code- ing macbine, receives this code making instrument. It is impossi- message, and prints it, letter by ble to make such a record: it is: small illuminated, letter-marked china, the code letters as they letter, in English again, on the impossible to get, from the ras- diala on the upper half of the pass in or out: the only way they schine. Thence the receiving can be picked up is by tapping operator writes it down in English either wize or ether with an or again. just as it was ticked out on dinary receiving set. the keyboard of the sending lieves that eventually he will over. Hebern be. machine.
come this in radio, by a combina. tion of wave lengths which will The only feature necessary to baffle tbe prosent receiving Who, drowsing, nose the long-machine is that both sender and Monitor.
the operation of the code-naking instruments-Christian Scieur lost ships Let down through darkness to duplicates of each other as to receiver use wheels which are their lips. Thus, the spirit of true romance loper who could very easily pick their internal wiring. An inter- inspires even such a prosaic the code letter combinations out proceeding as sounding the eanic depths, where strange set, or from the wires with an OC of the air with a radio receiving creatures fli: through black darkness by the light of be unable to read them; indeed, the ordinary Morse receiver, would theirown pboepborescence: where the reigns a stillness like that
who invented the the farthest depths of space, ur decode them, because there is no machine would be unable to: troubled by the thundering tem- key letter or word. For example, peat overhead; where the domia. Mr. Hebern, seated ion of man is still in evider ce, in machine, tapped out on the The building was taken by e the stretch of the submarine keyboard the word cable which links two continents difficult code word because letter "C" spelling "Conte." The "noon" clothing merchant, who added the together, bung in catenary curve it contains only two acrose the hollows, or tying half two "o's" and two "n's" and is by a gunsmith, a hardware dealer, letters, store was occupied in succession buried in the ooza of the ocean's apt to reveal the code latter or another clothing merchant, bed.
word for those letters. This word grocery, an animal dealer, and CHINESE JOINT SUMMER SCHOOL. passed out of the sending finally by a fruit merchant. Each The plan for a joint summer nachine, through some 50 miles one changed one letter in the sign.. school to be conducted by Shan-Tof wire looped round the room, until it finally read "Peste." Cao tung Christian University and and appeared almost instantly on you trace the missing steps? Peking University is making the illuminated dial board of the Saturday's ASWET: rapid progress. The school will be receiving machine, spelled out
If 15 children are aged in regu- held alternately in Tainaafu and slowly, so as to give the receiving lar order, with a year and a balf Peking, this year in Shantung operator time to write it down. difference between them, the old- beginning July 2, and running This, of course, demonstrated eat is 24, and the youngest 3 until July 27. The students will nothing more than has been done years old. be recruited from teachers and with the telegraph-typewriter pastors whose work for the moet But here we cut in on the traps- part is in rural sections and who mitting wire with a Moms - re- beed a source of contact with beiver, and we got there four current thought.
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