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which fually prints the message straight out
In order to make the received cur rent work the telephones, it has do bo. "detected"-that is, turned from a high frequency current into a lireet current rind "amplified," or increased in strength.
microphone, and from a variation of current back into a sound wave by means of a telephone receiver,
A simple form of telephone circuit comprising microphone calls and telephono is shown on the board
When no spooch in nccurring, steady current will flow from the cell through the microphone, along the line, and through the telephone. We may term this current the "carrier" current
When the microphone is spoken into, this current will be varied in strength, or "modulated," by reason of the alterations in resistance of the microphone caused by the voice.
Whenever the wireless wavo strikes a conductor suck as an aerial These operations are performed by wire, it tries to start a current flow. the Receiving Valve, whosn appear ance will be familiar to anyone who ing in it as a wind tries to net trees slanking-the netion being the recitas had any dealings with broadenst
receivors.
We have now scón that a wireless procal of timi which originated the wave: what I mean is that an oscit wave is created by a very rapid latory movement of electrons in un vibration of electrons in an aerial normal starts the wave and the ware wire: that a free wave in emitted tries to start an oscillatory inove which spreads out over the surface of the earth: that the wave on strik- ment of electrons in all the conducing another aerial wire tuned to respond to it produces & similar This is where the question of tun-rapid vibration of electrons which, ing comes in.
being, suitably treated by a wireless receiver, will produce a steady olecrior current. trio current.
tore it encounters
You may have noticed that when a piano is played, some vase ur other ornament will ring out whenover a This is particular note in played, because the piano note coinsities with the natural note ur frequency
of the vaur.
trick of
I believe n' favourite Caruso's was to pour some water into a wine-glass till it gave a certain note when capped, and then sing that note and matter the glass-by reason of the powerful vibrations not ar in it by his voice. He tunest the wineglass to the wavelength or fre- quency of his note by pouring the
water in
A Wireless Receiving Circuit, like the Transmitting Circuit, comprises combination of inductances and condenser whoso valves can be al justed by the receiving operator until thus eirenit responda hout readily to thy wase he wishes to receive: he then gets a maximum of response
332 from that ware, and a from other waves of different length
He merely turn various handles in an intelligent marer, and hears signal fit from one station and then from another, until he finds the station he wands.
The suguni is nuade perceptíbig the senses generally as a sound a pair of telephones, but it may be mails to produce a mark on a piece of tape or a Frasitical photographie film or a record on a dietaphone, or even to operate a relay mechanism
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We now wish to see how the WAY mukt be maltreated in order to affect one of the human senses and convey a mouning.
Three Forma, This may take one of three forms: Marso Telegraphy, Radio Telephony Television
Suppone fur example that n tuning fork tuned to the middle is sounded near the microphone, then n wave of frequency 250 vibrations per second will be impressed on the cat-
The current varintiona, passing through the telephone, will move the telephono diaphragm and the note of the tuning fork will be reproduced. The same principle is involved in wireless telephony.
A continuous high frequency car tier wave in omitted, which, when "detected in the receiver, is turned into n steady current.
By means of a microphona tho!
speaker varies the The first is easy. The wave in voice of a chopped up into long and short im-strength of this wave at the various pulsen by the sender with a morse antiblo frequencies that go to make key, and produces long nuit short im- pulses in the reaniver telephones short and a long meaning "A," a long and 3 shorts "B," and so on.
Morse is invariably used when a message hins to be recorded, as it can be sent and received as fust as man can write, and more aerurately than a message dictated by tele, phone.
The science of wireless telephony is of great interest on account of the
and importance popularity brondenating, so I will give a brief acest of huw it is done.
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In the first place you should under stand that the human voice does not travel as a sound wave from the mouth of the speaker to the ear of the listener anymore than it does in the ease of fine telephony,
specchi, and in consequence the telephone in the receiving sirenit re- produces the speech,
So in England every night the ether is set in vibration by numer
carrier waves-the Various us
nut ta interfere with each wavelengths being carefully chosen so na other-and the voices or saxophone mulate the carrier waves which La reproduced as speech or jazz.
(To, hè Continued.)
LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.
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BLACK, SLACK. STACK, In live telephony the speech is turned from a kound wave into a STALK, STALE, STILE, SMILE,
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