WIRELESS.
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS. (By Cable. —Pica* Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and X.Z. Cable Association.) (Received January 29tli, 1 a.m.) LONDON, January 2(5. Mr Godfrey Isaacs, interviewed, said four thousand ships were now equipped with Marconi apparatus as compared with fifteen hundred before, the war. Wireless had greatly decreased the submarine danger. une hundred and eighty-five operators were drowned owing to their ships being torpedoed. Portable wireless machines on the bat-tle-fields saved tens of thousands of lives by giving the commanders vital information. A wireless telephone was now fitted to aeroplanes. Signor Marconi had already telephoned 3UO miles, and soon would be able to wire/essly telephone across the Atlantic. Signor Marconi, during the war, developed a special wireless apparatus by means of which it was possible to follow tin; movements of enemy airships, aeroplanes, nnd men-of-war whenever they' used their wireless.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16433, 29 January 1919, Page 7
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138WIRELESS. Press, Volume LV, Issue 16433, 29 January 1919, Page 7
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