WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 5, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 39.

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

PERHAPS the one invention of this generation which is being utilized with the greatest rapidity is that of wireless telegraphy. Its usefulness was so apparent that no time has been lost in making experiments to develop its possibilities to the fullest extent. There have been a number of modifications in the method of producing the wireless current.

Military men, ever quick to realize the importance of new inventions that can be turned to a military use, have seized upon the wireless telegraph with avidity, and are now exploiting its powers with great rapidity. The Oriental War is the first in which it has been used, but it has proved to the belligerents a valuable means of maintaining communication during times when no other means were available. The naval squadrons of both nations have found it of great value in their operations, and it has occupied a prominent place on land as well. The fleet commanders have used the wireless telegraph to direct operations of individual vessels during an engagement. Besieged Port Arthur was able to keep in communication with the outside world by that means until the wireless station at Chefoo was compelled by the Chinese Government to dismantle. It is evident that the wireless telegraph, like the telegraph and telephone, has come to remain. It will, of course, be greatly improved, and will come to have a much wider field of usefulness than that which it now occupies.