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Progress In Transmission of Vision.
The groat strides which the known to be wrong. Within the solence of wirelove telegraphy last few months" many signal hamado in recent years are havo been succorafully sont great fully evidenced at the Exhibition | distances on waves as short, as which opened yesterday morning 100 motres and quite small at the White City, and which has anorgy, and last week the Mas been organised with a view to do conl eta lons at Bröntwood, Hon- monstrating the products of the don, and Broomafold, working ontire British radio industry, says with madost, Improvised ap the Observor of November 16th paratus, roosivad messages from Ovor sixty Arms are exhibiting, Australia sent on a wave-length Thoso metres. and many novel. fosturos are of about 90 shown on the stands, one of those mossagen were also picked up by being & now. British, lightweight an amateur using a small two- tolophono and A portable set valve not, who also exchanged which requires neither earth nor intelligible signals with 0.0 aerial. Those are small enough | Australian amateur, comments a to carry in a motor-car or u op London paper.
the river, and can be packed into Even more remarkable is the a moderate rizo dospatch-box. success of Mr. Goydor with the] During the period that the Ex-wireless installation at Mill Hill hibition will remain open com-School, who frequently picks no polltions for amateurs will take American stations around 300) place, those being for seta con metros, and has both resolved atructed by boys up to the age of and sont massages to amatoura! fifteen years, and by seniors above in New Zealand." that ago.
For some time Sonator Marcon!] The exhibition was opened by has boon carrying out Professor Low, who said they poriments on small waves by would all agree with him that the moans of his "beam" system. only thing that really interested which concentrates the other the public was the question of waves in a narrow zone and to-morrow. That was the reason almost completely outs out the
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simply that it represented the atmosphoro., These experiments: futuro of solanco.
have boon carried out on his yacht He had often noticed that the | Elettra-the call sign of which is most interesting discoveries in ICCM-during lengthy voyagos any art so now as wireless wore and also on board the Cedrio be- to be found in the workshops of twoon England and America. the amateurs, and in that rospect At distances exceeding 2,000 ho thought the exhibition was hilos the receivor on the Flottra more interesting than most. received messages transmitted Nowadays oven busiones mon by the "beam" system from the wore becoming to understand station at Poldhu, Cornwall, on that oven soi-neo was of some 100-metre waves, radiated with importanco, and that was a thing an energy of only 9 kilowatts, to the good.
loss than one-twolfth of the power that would have boon nooded without the special reflector used to concentrate the waves in a narrow beam.
Wireless, said Professor Law, was a completely now subject. Thoy now very little about it, but when the time came, as it undoubtedly would, that they would be able to transmit vision, they would reduce the need for travel whenever they wanted to soo any land or any individual.
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