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"SPEECH MAY GIVE WAY TO TELEPAHHT.

CELEBRATED SCIENTIST'S VIEWS.

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BLACK LIGHT.

SPOTTING AEROPLANES BY NIGHT.

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Prague, February 22..

Mr. John L. Baird, the Glasgow electrical engineer who has invent- Wireless is becoming very popu

The mass telepathy experied a television apparatus, and given lar in Czecho-Slovakia. On Decem

ments conducted by broadcast and many demonstrations with it, des ber 31, 1926, the Post Office regis supervised by Sir Oliver Lodge cribed what he calls "black light" tered 175,000 Hcence holders, while and Dr. V. J. Woolley, whatever to a representative. This is a de exactly one year ago the number their results may eventually prove makes it possible to see without any velopment, of his original Idem, and was only 17.000,

to be, will arouse fresh interest in One unexpected result is the dethe fascinating subject of thought

visible light. Crease in custom at the inna and

"Although black light is but a transference. Professor A minor development of television," Deer shopa.. It is, however, Low in this article in "Reynold's He said, "It offers possibilities of halanced by an increase in the ante Illustrated News" makes some attack and defence during warlike of bottled beer, the reason ap

activities; and that seems to muko parently being that patrons prefer startling prophecies.

The fact of telepathy would all the difference. Alroady our seem to be established and beyond own. Government, and the Ameri dispute.

can, German, and French Govern- For example. Professor Gilbert mente have sent representatives to Murray made some telepathy ex-inspect the apparatus.. So keen to periments with Lord Balfour ac. the interest that we have been coin- curately interpreting the latter'spelled to commence the construc

full-sized apparatus. thoughts; while the late Frank ten of a Podmore recorded many cases of a very striking character.

When one comes to the con- sideration of the how of thought transference one treads other ground. Obviously the first thing we have to comprehend is the nature of the thought · process, What is it? The answer is: A form of change of energy.

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In the realm of education the in- portance of broadcasting is being realised, especially for the further ance of popular instruction. Only luct year a grant was made by the Ministry of Education of 100.000 crowns. for the purchase of modern apparatus and wireless "seta.

SCOTTIJH RADIO EXPERT.

Dr.

Erskine James Robert Murray, D.Sc., a distinguished ex- pert in wineless telegraphy, died at Portsmouth, after a very short ilmess, at the age of 68, says the "Times.""

No Longer A Theory, Recently a distinguished Italian scientist endeavoured to prove the fact of thought radiation by mechanical means. As the result of many delicate experiments car ried out in his laboratory in the University of Milan, Professor Cazzamali claimed that he was able to detect the existence of thought waves, and also to mea sure them.

born in Edinburgh on October 24, 1868, the eldest son o. kr. Alexander Erskine Brake Murray, he spent six years in study and research under the late Lord Kevin as msgow Univer- sity. He then entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a research Telepathy, then, would seem to student. For two years, 1898-8, be no longer a theory, but he was Assistant Professor of proven fact..

which we shall install on the roof of the laboratory, Many search- fra red rays of light which are in- Flights are extremely rich in the in- visible and which I use, and we propose to have one of these fitted. with a suitable light filter.. It will. make it appear that the searchlight has gone out, but the rays will be there all the, same. On a suitably dark night we shall have an aero- plane flying overhead and pick it up by the apparatus.”

RADIO AND SURVEYING..

Modern wireless played an im portant part in assisting the Juba- land Boundary Commission to carry out the new demarcation of the ne. For days the members of the Commission were out in the track- less and featureless desert, and by nieans of a powerful receiving set they were able to correct their chronometer and ensure the ac curacy of their astronomical They picked up the

Physics and Electrical Engineer- Will it ever become more than observations: ing at the Heriot-Watt College, an interesting form of amuse-time signals from the Eiffel Tower and then he was appointed experiment? I am sure of it. Consider station dally, and by listening to the tick of the station's master clock mental assistant to Mr. Marconi, man as evolving" continuously and to that of the chronometer and later held several appoint, man with his brain not so far resimultaneously until the beats coin- ments. as lecturer and consultant. moved from the brain of a dog-cided they were enabled to establish In 1913 he became a partner in and remember that the five their position accurately. the firm of Clark, Forde, Taylor, known senses may well be but a The Commissjon has now com and Erskine-Murray, consulting small part of the total number pleted its work and is back at. engineers:

which lie dormant in him.

Nairob. The members stated that During the war Dr. Erskine- Is it too far-fetched to suggest they were able to enjoy concerts Murray served with the Royal Air that the time will come when from all over the world and plek up Force in charge of the 'design of speech will give way to communi- various news services. A roar 12ft. wireless instruments and of ex-cation by the silent exchange of vide has been cut to mark the boun-

dary. perimental work. Afterwards he thoughts?

NO AUDIENCE.

Owing to a defect in the land lines it was found impossible to broadeant the dance music played by the Rialto Cinema Orchestra, Coventry Street, W., from 2LO, the London station.

was appointed Experimental En- We are so used to speech as a gineer at H.M. Signal School; means of communication that it R.N. Barracks, Portsmouth, and does not appear absurd to us to was the first to demonstrate eom-waggle our faces and blow munication from aeroplane to lec-through that hole we call our ture hall. He was Fellow of the mouths in order to communicate Royal Society of Edinburgh, of with our fellows. But the process the Institute of Physics, and of may well seem different to the the Institute of Radio-Engineers, man of some future age.

The defect was not discovered. and past-president of the Wire- Thought, then, being clearly an until after the orchestra had opened less Society of London.

electrical process, it stands to rea-thefr programme, and the fact that son that it must set up some form bis music was not being transmit- of oscillation, probably a very de ted was not communiented to the licate form, measurable by the orchestra conductor, Mr. Alexander finely-adjusted instruments of the Fryer, until the first interval, half laboratory of the future, but not an hour later. amenable to the crude microphone of the wireless set!

BETTER BROADCASTS,

One Type Programme Each Night, Advocated.

A meeting in London of the newly formed Wireless League Programme Advisory Committee passed are solution that the recent, général criticism of the broadenst pro- grammes wag justified.

"The microphone was in front of me," he afterwards told a "Dally

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way of cutting off" hostile thoughts.

Personally, while I regard it as Mail reporter,, "and I simply car very interesting, I do not think ried on in the belief that I was en-

tertaining millions of people. the experiment of mass telepathy fhet, ant a soul outside the theatre conducted by means of wireless & could hear a note. I announced the particularly fair test.

title of each Itern after it had been. Before such thought transfer-played." ence can be utilised as a silent means of communication between men it will be necessary for us to develop that latent power which is undoubtedly within all our brains. Telepathy in Daily Life. Until an alternative programme le It will come slowly and probably available, it is urged that the Bri- in a ratio with our conquest of tish Broadcasting Corporation our lower nature. But it will should adopt the policy of making come, as surely as flying has come

"The committee, as representing listeners all over the country," said a member afterwards, "felt that the present policy of giving a little of everything in one night was not desired by the majority of listeners.

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In peasing, I think it worth while suggesting that certain lower forms of life may already know something of silent, com munication. Experimenting with moths, for instance, I found that there seems to be some connec-

mate at a distance and the length of the antennae a suggestive fact..

the entertainment from 7.30 to 10-flying regarded as a preposter-tion between the power to find the p.m. continuous. The entertainous dream half a century and less ments each night should vary in ago. character, so that all Hsteners could How would the general use of be sure of hearing two or three telepathy as a means of com programmes a week definitely to

munication affect our lives? The their taste."

It is understood that the Wireless best way to answer that question League's representatives on the is to ask yourself whether your E.B.C. Advisory Committee have thoughts during any hour of any been instructed to suggest at a day of the week would be fit to meeting that the B.B.C. shall adopt stand the test of a broadcast from this polley belag the only one 21 O!.... likely under existing conditions, to please the majority of listeners.

The meeting decided that the ma- jority of the talks did not interes people, that many of those on ab- atract subjects were quite unsuit able, and that others were broadcast at the wrong time of the day,

WHEN I RETURN-MACCIE-I EXPECT TO BE APPOINTED TRAVELİN" The AMBASSADOR-THE PRESIDENT WILL RE 50 IMPRESSED WITH WHAT I SAY ABOUT MYSELF-THAT FELLOW-BLOT: WON'T HAVE A CHANCE FOR THEJOB!

TO THE WHITE PHOUSE

"Ware Humbug! But like all new things, thought transference lends itself to humbug. Do not confuse the recent experiment with the very clever signal systems of stage per- formers; the two things have no- thing in common.

In due time we shall all com- As telepathy develops we shall probably develop the power tomunicate by this silent process; control unruly thoughts, for the but before that time comes we bony structure of our heads will shall have to march a consider- no longer serve as a mask for the able distance up that long hill thoughts of the brain within. In which I will call the Hill of Evolu due course we shall devise some tion before we are fit to come into

this marvellous heritage.

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