1923-06-09 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY. JUNE 9. 1923.

RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.

A FORTY-EIGHT HOUR DAY.

Odd Feature of Trans-Pacific Travel Eastward.

Overcoming the Static Evil.-

Brunswick

150*

180*

EASTBOUND SAID CROSSING PRO14 MEQICIAN IN SA »OUR DAY Oddest of all days is to: merid- lao day experienced by travel! < Crossing the Pacific Geron. Going westward he loses uecurely, and coming eastward he Ends it to

4" beurs long. This strange escur- rence is in mid-Pacifica, the 180th.

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COMMANDER ALJU HOSKEN RH.2

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vil the meridian day as two days, site still holds the record

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Sidereal time, used by astronom ers. is exact for its purpose but is out suited to every-day business on earth. So man invented mean solar time by which an hour is lost for each 15 (or 900 miles) waveled westward, or 24 hours in all drring the 300 Circuit of the miste. Go ing east 24 hours are gained a they must be accounted for HORS

keep the world's time from chaos, the 1601 meridian was chosen as the pot. It is balt way arvard the earth from G wich, the longitude of which is 0. and is as appropriate place to lose or gain a day beca se there is very Hittle business going on in mid-Pa rifc. The meridian passes through the Fiji Islands, and about 100 miles east of New Zealand.

Commander A. J. Bosker,

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meridian of longitude. commonly ham to Race Rocs cuarantine sto- known as the international de tion. Victoria, B. C. made, oy the All ships crossing it wes Cansdian Pacific Hirer "brest of und drop a day, while these eart· Rusma" in 1914. The alleged new und double a day.

record was 5 days, 10 hours and Recently & Seafile reporter ton 44 minutes, but be reporter lerret R.. of the "Empress of Russia.” 10- Hool of the 1890th. meridian ad to count the gundas dės, vaste pently received two mecals fro

ent broadcast a story that the bound, a 48 hours; consequently France for his beccic rescue of the "President Grant" bad brukes the, the ship'g serua) •teaming time wer rew of the French ship Rein Tien trans-Pacific record of S ları, 18 days, 10 hours and 4 wincles which sank daring a storm of the hours and 31 minates cm Yoko A. the "Empress of Rupain" mont-:Chimese coast is. 1902.

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GUARD AGAINST MISFORTUNE

A BOY'S CARELESSNESS -A. HUNDRED AND ONE OTHER UNACCOUNTABLE REASONS IMAT KRING THAT PREADED MESSAGE TO YOUR OVEDE....

YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE!

AND SHOULD YOUR HOUSE BE ON THE FEAR OF SITUATED IN ONE OF THE OUTLYING DISTRUTS. EVERYTHING YOU PRZE "WILL BE LOST-INLESS YOU HAVE BEEN WISE ENOUGH TO TAKE PRECAU- TIONARY MEASURES. THE WORLD'S BEST FIRE EXTINGUISHER-WHICH HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED BEROS THE HONGKONG FIRE AUTHORITIES -

FOAMITE-FIREFOAM

Fat Particulare from

UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL CO., LTD 2. Queen's Bld; a. Tel 236

Foamite Hrefoam

Is it possible that the verticalis believed to be Tokyo,is general- antenna may solve the probem fly credited with causing Peking of static interference ?

officials to defer action on the This question is prompted by Federal company's request for tests recently made by Mesars authority to complete the project. R.W. Coburn and Roy Knaben- It is said there is reason to believe Jabue at Burbank, California, that Mr. Schurman has remonst

These men sent up a kite balloon rated with the Chinese authorities | to which they had attached sn over what amounts to the expul-] antenna wire to their receiving | sion ofphe American company in Jet.

favour of the Japanese concern.

Jecret Messages.

With the balloon up 200 feet,

be experimenters say they

Big business and other organiza. tions will soon be sending their messages through the air, with greater speed and secrecy than even their private telegraph lines, For the long expected system of secret and fast radio communica tion is almost ready for general adoption.

beard several broadcast concerts with a singular absence of thegrating noises 50 fami- liarto radio fans. They used an ordinary receiving set with two-step-amplification. They now intend to construct a larger balloon and send it up higher for the purpose of experimenting further with the vertical antenna,). More important than speed, bath in sending and receiving. bowever, is secrecy, which en- The picture above shows Mr.gineers have been trying to attain Coburn, Mr. Knabenshue (holding even before radio became popular. balloon string) and Mrs. Knaben-Large American business Grms, shue before the test balloon went with branches all Over the

up.

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Broadcast Concerts.

country and in Europe, bare seen the practicability of inter branch radio communication, but "We regret it, but it leaves us have been reluctant to adopt it unruffled," said an official of the because of its lack of secrecy. Broadcasting Company when dis-Now their opportunity is at hand. cussing with a Press reprentative Of the many secret devices in. the ban which the Theatricalį vented by various engineers, two Managers' Association have are prominent. One is the code placed on the broadcasting of system already adopted by the plays, music, and other entertain- ! Navy Department and the other is the Berlin secret radio- photo- graphing process which has been: under experimentation for some time.

ments.

"We are willing to co-operate and work with any intereste," be added, "but if they are averse, then we shall be quite prepared

to discharge our obligations to the public, and put on a first-class programme."..

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Herbern Invention.

The first invention is that of Edward N. Hebern of Oakland.

is so secret that no human being bes anything directly to do with the coding and decoding of the messages. The machina does that. In the testa during the battle-

Mr. Percy Pitt, so prominently associated with Covent Garden and other musical enterprises, is joining the Broadcasting Com- pany as musical director: Con- tracts are being made with ship maneuvers off the Panama prominent artists, and, operatici Canal recently. the machine performances are to be broadcast automatically coded and decod. from the company's own theatre ed messages typed for transmis- at Savoy Hill, which is now near-sion. All the operator had to doi ing completion. These companies was insert the proper codej will not only give performances wheel," at either end.

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The Brunswick Virona

Plays

AB Recorda

Better

Make This Test

Before You Choose Your Phonograph

Attend one of our daily demonstra- tions. Hear The Brunswick. Examine the Ultona, pictured above. See if you can find elsewhere the equal of Bruns- wick tone.

See if you can find elsewhere the convenience of playing all types of rec- erds without changing parts-without

"attachments."

Compare the sweetness of Bruns- wich tone with the metallic quality of ording phonographs-note the amaz- „ ing difference.

Compare The Brunswick with any or all phonographs, feature by feature and part by part. Then use your own judgment.

MAY WE HAVE THE PLEASURE OF A VISIT FROM YOU!.

THE BRUNSWICK STUDIO

17 Ice House Street

TEL. CENTRALJ 40357

THE LATEST

SELF GENERATING

Electric Torch

with extension for inspecting interiors tanks, of petrol

barrels etc.

"MADE LIKE A WATCH"

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at the London station, but will be This machine is so complicated went on tour to the company's that it is said to have eleven various stations in the provinces.million variations among the 261 At the opening of the company's different code wheels each of new studio Lord Birkenbead re- which corresponds with a letter cently spoke for the "men's hour,“

of the alphabet. And the number: of changes a single code wheel can be put to, some statistician THE HUMAN has computed, rises to the incon- ceivable number of 40,303,146,- 321,064,147,046,400.000!

while Princess Alice opened the women's hour by discussing the important topic of adopting babies.

Manila Broadcasting.

Belia System,

Hardly a chance for any eaves- The Pacific Commercial Com-dropper to fathom a message'sent, pany's radio station on the .com this way. pany's building in Manila broad- casted an attractive programme an a recent afternoon-from 3:30

The secret system invented by to 4:30. Besides Associated Press Edouard Belio, French scientist. news there was singing and other is such bat photographs and features Hereafter the concerts signatures can be sent ont by it. will be given on Tuesdays, Thurs-Six adjustable disks control the days and Saturdays of each week transmission and their combina- with different attractions from tion is difficult to guess. They time to time. A receiving station revolve in so bas been put up by the American variations of time that Belin says many different Hardware Company on their only those knowing the actual building.

combination used could receive China Refuses Radio Permit. the messages sent.

Listening-in is almost impos- Washington, May 23.-Majorsible, except for those who have General E N. Harbord, president the special apparatus made to of the Radio Corporation of receive the messages sent by America bas hed a conference Belin's transmitter. That afforde with State Department officials. an opportunity for private It is understood that the confer- broadcasting, such as the Bell ence had to do with efforts of the telephone oficials and others Federal Telegraph company to have been contemplating. obtain from China aathority to operate radio stations in China. It is said a Japanese radio com- pany is at work in China, but it has not as yet establish-

Proven practicable, the Belin system could be used in the broadcasting of radio, concerts only to those who pay a regular monthly fee for the service. The

ed communication across the Hebern machine is practicable Pacific owing to the diffic for code work, among govern ulties of equipment Pressure ment and private from within, the source of which branches.

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HERILOVING CUP

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Paki Lodger Ce