Officers Applaud New Box Wireless.
Under the direction of the secretary of war a new wireless apparatus, the invention of Doctor Otto F. Reinhold, of 77 Nye Avenue, Newark, N. J., was tested at Bedloe’s Island by First Lieutenant J. G. Taylor, of the Signal Corps, and M. B. Dilley, master signal electrician. The government men declared afterward that the apparatus gave promise of revolutionizing the entire system of wireless telegraphy.
The apparatus, inclosed in a box about fifteen inches long, six inches wide, and eight inches high, may be styled a secret radio plant, and is intended primarily for use in the army field. The astounding feature of it, according to Lieutenant Taylor, is that it was fully demonstrated that the little contrivance sends out its sound waves without antennæ.
The experiment enabled the government officials to communicate with Fort Totten, about fifteen miles away in one direction, and Fort Hancock, about twenty miles distant in another. The navy-yard wireless station called a halt on the tests as the inventor was about to try to reach Fort H. G. Wright, one hundred and twenty miles away, at New London, Conn.
Doctor Reinhold said his apparatus could be connected wherever direct or alternating current is available. He said it could be used on an automobile and operated while the machine was at top speed by using current supplied from the automobile dynamo.
The inventor claimed for his apparatus that in a recent test he sent a message three hundred miles.
Echoes of War in London Want Ads.
Want advertisements are always interesting because of the varied and intimate side lights which they give on what people are doing and thinking about. As war topics fill the news and editorial columns of the English newspapers, so is the war the all-absorbing subject in the classified department. Following are a few of the advertisements appearing in the London Times, sent to the Blade by Mr. Boyce as showing how England is taking the war:
Dogs and cats of the empire!—The kaiser said: “Germany will fight to last dog and cat.” Will British dogs and cats give 6d. each to provide Y. M. C. A. soldiers’ hut at front? Any dog or cat sending five pounds can have his or her picture hung in “our” hut.—“Tom,” care of Miss Maud Field, Mortimer West, Berks.
Request from sailors and soldiers at the front to send large consignments of flint and tinder lighters; matches, when procurable, being unreliable in wet weather. Money to help purchase direct from makers solicited.—Address Haden Crawford, esquire, Marlow, Bucks.