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When wireless telegraphy waE confined to the classical labora-gentler pastimes of the English Blackberrying is one of the tory experiments of its earliest country in autumn; and the devotoos it was well-known that motor-car has immensely increa a beam of light travels accurate-ed its popularity. ly in a straight line, unless its the car enlargotheradius ofopora- Not only does path is diverted by a reflector ortion, but it does away with the by some refracting medium toil of outrying home laden through which it passed. Even baskets. So all over rural Eng before the fucts had been de-fund now, on any fine day, empty finitely confirmed by actual ex- cars stand by the roadside at the periment, it was known on corners of promising lanes, at the theoretical grounds that waves of edges of woods and commons, light and the wayes which are while the occupants are dispersed now so much used for wireless among the bushes. And black. communication were identical in borrying has much to commond nature, and differed from gach it. It produces definito and other only in the matter of wave desirable results; you have some- length.

thing to show for yourlabour. Every

It was thus to be expected that member of a family can share its wireless waves would travol in joys and pains in common without straight lines in the same way as fregard to age or sex and it is light, and that the farthest point excellent moral díaciplino, a great on the earth's surface to which it test of character, and a would bo possible to transmit revelation of human weaknesses, great signals was practically that re-There are those who flit lightly ached by a stright line drawn from bush to bush, sipping every from the top of the transmitting flower, picking only such berries aorial as a tangent to the earth. as offer themselves readily to the This mode of reasoning received fingers without excessivereaching some support when it was found or danger of thorns. Wo know that hills and mountains cast ap- them in real life-the flutterors, preciable "shadows" when they agreeable people who skim only Jay in the path of wireless waves. the cream of things and enjoy Honco, when it was demonstrat-nearly every pleasure except the ed in 1901 that it was possible to respect of their follows. Then transmit intelligible siguals there are the solid workers who. across the Atlantic from England plant themselves resolutely at a to Newfoundland, over "mountain" of sea-water 130 search, rockless of thorns,.among a chosen spot, pick high, pick low.. miles high, many scientific and the screening leaves, and push theoretical workera became insteadily dooper and deeper into terested in the problem of ex-the hedge. Where those have plaining the means by which the been there is scant gleaning ufter, waves followed the curvature of And these also wo know elsо- the earth.

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whose passion is thoroughness The successful solution of the and who carry on their shoulders problem has been almost entirely the burden of the world's business. duo to the brilliant, work of those! British

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who have devoted to witness the prodigious size of their attention to it. It has been tha borries that they pick, the im shown quite definitely that, almense and unheard of tangle of though the earth han some in-nettles and armed sprays that fluence in causing the waves to they have had to circumvent, the bend slightly. round itself, this incredible value of their contribu- bending action is very small and tion to the common stook, Final- not nearly sufficient to explain ly the shirkers, the graceless once. the facts. Some 15 years ago it was suggested that

grown men, usually, who oven periphery of the earth's atmos-seated to loeward of the hedge the have no shame when discovered here there was a layer of ionized smoking a surreptitious pipe. air which acted as a reflector of Even the shirkers, however, share wireless waves reaching it, send in the common delusion that of ing them down again to the all the additions to the contents earth's surface. A great deal of of the basket their own has been theoretical and experimental the must magnificent. All aliko work carried out in the interval also can subsequently enjoy, the has shown that this explanation blackberry, tort. It is true that is substantially correct." Heaviside-layer, as it is called beyond doubt, its perfume. No- The the best part of blackborry tart-is, after tho celebrated English thing could ba so ravishingly good mathematical physicists to whom to eat as hot blackberry tart it owes its origin, surrounds the smells. Liko tangerine oranges, earth in the form of a shell at a it holds out a promise of things to height of, from 25 to 60 miles.adorable for earthly realization. Wireless wares which in their And if there are some who prefor staight line path of travel reach blackberry pudding, with its loy this layer are deflected in such ing pastry-well, they are doubt- a manner as to cause them to less bonest in their eccentic por- return to the earth's surface at ference. places beyond tho

There are people who normal like a hard roe in a herrag But straight line range. This is the such people are not necessarily to explanation of the transmission be despised. They may possess. of wireless signals as much as in other spheres, mary sound and half-way

round the earth's excellent qualities. All heresy is surface, particularly on the low a matter of convicion and toni- powers now being employed by parament, not of intentional por amateurs in signalling from Eng-versity. One car but pity them land to New Zealand and other and pass on to use such influence countries. The position and as one has with hostess or cook effectiveness of the layer are to make sure they it is tart and subject to change with many con-not pudding that forthcoming. ditions, particularly with aTimes. change from daylight to dark- noos, and to the direct influence. of the layer can be attributed. the fading of signals and other freak effects commonly not with in wireless practice.

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