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RADIO TOPICS

TELEPATHY,'

REPORT ON THE RADIO TEST.

INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.

Dr. V. J. Woolley, the honorary secretary of the Society for Paychi- cal Research, who was in charge of the recent mass telepathy ex- periment by wireless, read a. re-

port on the results at a meeting, held under the auspices of the so- ciety, in the hall of the British Medical Association, Tavistock- square. It will be remembered that agents of the society, locked in £1 room in Tavishtock-square,

concentrated on five objects in turn while the attention of wireless listeners was directed to them by Sir Oliver Lodge from the London studio. About 25,000 letters were received from listeners giving their Impressions of the test..

Sir Oliver Lodge, who presided

LATEST SCHEME.

EMPIRE TO HEAR THE

KING.

A SHORT WAVE STATION,

A short-wave broadcast station,

EMPIRE RADIO.

THE URGENT NEED OF A

.SERVICE,

GREAT IMPERIAL VALUE,

Writing on behalf of the two to bring the Dominions within national listeners'' organisations, range of the British broadcast pro- Mr. David S. Richards, of the Wire- less League, and Mr. Reginald Krammes, so that on great cere-Halsey, chairman of the Wireless monies the King's volce may be Association of Great Britain, in a heard in every part of the Empire, letter to the Editor of the "Dally is to be erected at once by the Bri tish Broadcasting Corporation.

Captain P. P. Eckersley the chief engineer, stated that a building had been selected at Daventry and it was expected that the station would be ready for transmitting in about

six months.

"The station will be in the nature of an experiment," he said. "No- thing is promised and nothing is uaranteed except that we shall do our best. Our policy has been to wait until a reasonable hope of suc-

Colonial Wireless:

Mail" state:

We understand that next week the Colonial Conference is to con- sider the possibilities of A broadcasting service from the Mother-country, to every part of the Empire.

Up-till now the British Broad- casting Corporation has neither funds nor mandate for under- taking an Imperial Broadcasting Service, but no further time

should be lost. Holland has already established 4 working 'broadcast link between herself and Java in the Far East, using a short-wave system.

It is a matter for public opinion and public money. The columns of "The Daily Mall" have- helped to hasten official decisions in the past, and here is an out- standing case where the Press can be of the greatest service. Action should clearly be taken before the Colonial Conference adjourns and the over-geas repre- sentatives disperse.

come

at this meeting stated that psychi-cess seems likely before spending

a lot of money. cal results were sometimes discount-

"Two things at present stand in ed on the ground that mediums ob- the way of regular transmission-- tained information purporting to distortion and fading. They have come from someone living who not yet been overcome and it may know the facts. If this maas tele-be from one to ten years before a pathy experiment had had a clearly broadcast service to the ends of the positive result he thought it would earth is in full swing." have strengthened that objection.

Dr. Woolley at the outset explain- ed that the object of the experi-

The Colonial Conference sitting ment had been twofold. To dia-in London discussed wireless tele-

Short-Wave Station. cover whether any evidence could graphy and telephony when it was

It is understood that the question be obtained of telepathic transmis: stated that the Hong Kong. Pale- sion of ideas to strangera, knowing stine, Gold Coast, Kenya, Cyprus, of a British Empire breadcasting

and Zanzibar Governments contem service will nothing of the agents except that plate establishing brandersting ser- Colonial Conference in the form of before the they were in a certain place, and vices.

a letter from Mr. H. Anthony if any such evidence was obtained

The Straits Settlements Govern- Hankey, of the Wireless Associn- in a few cases to conduct further ment proposes to start a short-wave tion. He urges that a shortwave, experiments later with the success wireless telegraphy service between high-power transmitting station ful recipients in order to obtain Singapore, Fenang, and neighbour should be constructed in this coun- further information about tele-ing States, and the Kenya Govern- try to work between 20 and 40 pathie processes. Before proceed- ment hopes to be able to pick up rietres. ing he very regretfully had to ask hort-wave transmissions from Bri- "A 24-hours service would be them to dismiss from their minds a rhort. any figures which had previously

necessary," Mr. Hankey told, a To brighten the lives of the "Dally

Mail" appeared, as the present figures Colonial peoples and form channels the Empire on which the

reporter, "for were the result of a second and of information, the hope was ex never acts. It is a peculiarity of complete recount.

Dealing first pressed that programmes from Bri-short-wave broadcasts that you get with the impressions of the playing tain would be transmitted to all Breliable reception for two or three the agents in tish dependencies, but it was stated hours at least as each part of the Tavistock-square, Dr. Woolley re- that prolonged experiments would earth revolves into a favourable minded his hearers that the first | first be necessary. object was the "two of clubs" and the fourth the "nine of hearts." With regard to the "two of clubs." 190 listenera gave this correctly and 491 gave it wrongly as the "ning

fhearts." With re- Kard to the "nine of hearts," 150 gave it correctly, while 145 gave it wrongly as the "two of There was no proof of clubs." telepathy in these figures, and the results were entirely negative. Turning to the other objects, these

cards shown to

were:

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2. A Japanese. print of a human skull 'resting on the grass, with two birds, one perched on the top, and the other on the! ground.

3. A bunch of white lilac. 5. Dr. Woolley himself, wear- ing

grotesque mask and bowler hat.

POWER BY WIRELESS,

Heat and Light Carried by

: Beam.

Mr. Marconi's statement that wireless waves will be used in the near future to transmit electric power over great distances is aup plemented by Professor A. M. Low, who declares that we shall soon receive our light and heat from an aerial

Now Dr. Phillips Thomas, in a lecture before the New York Elec- trical Society states that he also is convinced that wireless power transmission is possible, and sug- gests a method by which It could be done.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert.... but our readers are turned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings,' such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

62

HORIZONTAL 1-A kind of naval ship B-A portion

-Extending away

from 11Before

12-Diagram

14-To stop respiration

by force

16-Man's name

18-Quider

20-Asnoya

21-Preposition

12

13

16

20

O'THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE,

KONIZUNTÁL (Cont.) 40-Heavy cord (pl.) |47-Pertaining to the

country 49-Coupled B1-Province

82-A brief paem 53-Avenue (abbr) 50-A color 86-inactiva

68-The act of holding

buck

VERTICAL

23-A gulf In the Baltic 1-To disagras

Sea

24-Terra firma

26-Perform

26-To cut down 28-6pare time 30-A smoked meat Bi-Fales hair 32-A soft lump 33-Pronoun

34-Allow 35-Vox 39-A snapo 41-Elso

-An alcoholic drink -English title next

above a viscount

ich manner

2-8teamship (abbé.) $-Article 4-Unusual 6-Natural substance

containing matal -A pronoun

7-Wandered

-A grezzy liquid 10-Used in beating

grain

[12-8cond of a battle-

the World War 18-A secretion from

Inflamed terusa 14-Place where

material la Joland - together

148

40

VERTICAL (Cont.) 18-Border

16-Te lost through the

air 17-Machine for

weaving 15-Marinere

-To sob nolity 25-A tail structure 25-Challenges 27-Quick

humor

29-An old French cols 30-To fali with an axe

345A HODES

38-An Indian tent |36-The stem of tall

stiff grassen $7-To prales 33-Mistake

40-A favor, blessing

42-Edge [44-To bewall

40-0panish for, “river" 48-A boy 50-On top of 83-An Insect 64-Period of time

86-Part of verb "to be" 167-Symbol for Titanium (The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

position. With a high-power high- wave transmission (such as Daven- try) you are very lucky if you get glasses. The first of these objects anything overseas once a week."

was to some extent attained with the new desensitised hand micro- Mr. Hankey added:

Speeches of Imperial import-phone, which could be held close to ance could be recorded mechani- the mouth, and the latest develop- cally in this country and rebroad-ment is an obvious extension of the idea. The face of the spchker is cast throughout the ensuing 24 not covered in any way, the mier hours, so that each belt of the phone being held in position in Empire, as it rolls into the area of audibility, could hear the ment to a metal band encircling the front of his mouth by an attach- utterance.

head. It is, therefore, the counter- part of the headphone in the trans- mitting sense; but whereas head- phones preceded the loud speaker in wireless reception, as far as the microphone end is concerned, it is rather curious to note that evolu-j tion has worked in precisely the op- posite direction.

AUSTRALIAN PROGRESS.

Melbourne, May 11. Remarkable success has been achieved by the beam wireless ser- rice between Australia and Great Britain during the first month of its operation. From the outset all traffic has been cleared without delay and at high speed. A sum- mary of the first, month's business was issued to-day by the managing director of Amalgamated Wireless (Australia), Ltd., (Mr. E. T. Fisk).

Four listeners described No. 2 us a skull, and one balled it a "kuli "It is highly probable," he de- | in a garden." The last-mentioned clared, "that the power plants of person also gave No. 3 as "flowers," the future will consist of powerful and No. 5 as some black object wireless stations, directing heat, A skull was, however, given as the light, and power rays in definite "A satisfactory feature of ser third object 714 times, and as the directions, in much the same way vice has been the growth of traffic fifth object 166 times. The bunch as the beam of light from a search of all classes," said Mr. Flak. "In of Hae was given correctly by four light is projected. The wires and the first full week's working 60,000 listeners, while 1,036 gave flowers. high powers which carry the words were dealt with and traffic For the fifth object, on the other electric currents away from the grew so rapidly that in a fortnight hand, one person gave the Hiac, power plants will be replaced by the weekly load had grown to be- while 466 gave flowers. It should the wireless beam, which will be tween 70,000 and 80,000 words. be remembered that Sir Oliver the energy channel over which the The service haa carned an excellent directed lateners to record impres-current will be shot instantaneously reputation among business man for sions of objects No. 3 and No. 5 in wherever required."

the high degree of accuracy with which messages in code are handled. This accuracy is due to the fact that messages are sent and received between Queen Street, Melbourne, and the General Post Office. London.. This obviates the

a sense other than sight.

With regard to the last test, the speaker himself in a bowler hat and mask, 517 recorded feelings of amusement, five had an impression of himself, 236 referred to a person

CALLING UP AUSTRALIA.

"We are entering on an era ofį

masquerading, 73 mentioned rapid expansion in the foreign errors which would be likely to telephone service," declared Sir arise if Intermediate repeating Evelyn Murray, Secretary to the stations were used." Post Office, at the Manchester Luncheon Club.

A NEW MICROPHONE.

mask, and 202 a hat. He thought the results from the third and fifth tests rather more hopeful than in the case of the cards, but did not regard it as proof. A remarkable "Some day it will be possible for fenture in the case of the carde any telephone subscriber in this

Yet another ingenious adaptation was that the ordinary mathematical country to speak to people in Aus-

of the microphone for the benefit chances were discounted by the tralia." From a technical point of tives from the scene of sporting of those giving descriptive narra- fact that people showed a marked view, there was no distance over tendency to chose odd numbers. land where ordinary speech could B.B.C. The apparatus is to be events has been carried out by the One listener described one of the not he telephoned. "objects" as a man pouring out

Experiments worn on the head of the individual whisky and soda, while a dark-wireless service to extend tele- blance to the latest type of gas-mask. were being made with the beam broadcasting, and bears a resem haired lady placed a restraining phone operations across the sea. hand on his arm. This actually In the near future there would it serves the very useful dual pur- In spite of its fearsome appearance, was an incident which took place be no reason why it would not be pose of shutting out extraneous after the five objects had been possible to telephone to any coun- noises and leaving the commentator shown.

(Laughter).

try in Europe.

with both hands free for the use of

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