NEW WIRELESS SYSTEM.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1628, 20 December 1912, Page 6

NEW WIRELESS SYSTEM.

REMARKABLE' IMPROVEMENTS. CLAMED. ,'B? Ibleffraph.-Press Association.) Auckland, December 19. Within recent months some wonderful improvements have beeu made iu wireless telegraphy, but an invention which promises to revolutionise the w.hole of the present wireless systems was recently made by a young French electrician, M. Bethenod. Tho announcement of the invention was made by cablegram from Paris some weeks ago, but so far no details have been available! ' .

Mr. Arthur Buckleton, M.1.C.E., of London, is at present visiting Auckland, and last evening he.had something interesting to- say. , Mr. Buckleton was in France at the time the news of the invention was made public, and he says that the electrical world has been surprised by the great scope of the young Frenchman's id«a. Briefly. Mr. Buckleton explained, M. Bothenod's invention was the elimination ■of the sparks from the present wiroless systems, and tho simplifying of all the apparatus in a modern wireless equipment. It was necessary to ■have a transformer, an alternator, an induction coil. ■ a condenser, an oscillator, and the aerials. Under the new scheme, however, it will be possible to got better results' from merely nn alternator and aerials. The latter will not be tho ordinary conducting copper .wires merely stretched between two masts, but will be of special design, and the most important part of M. Bethenod's system. Mr. Buokleton added that tho cost of a station under the nev; system would be about one-sixth of the cost of tho presentdnv high-power installation. In the opinion of many English engineers, continued Mr. Buckleton, M. Bethonod's invention would lead, and indeed already had led., to a great wave of progress with wireless telephony, which was now only in its infant stages as far as its commercial use was concerned. M. Bethenod's alternator was able to make, the waves it sent out from the specially designed aerials all in unison, and they will not be interfered with by waves from other stations in the vicinity. With the ordinary wireless outfit not more than '000 waves per minute could ■bo sent through tho aerials, although the human voice averaged ten linvs that, number of •oscillations' throucfi the modern telephone. Without the- troublesome- sparking svstom,- however, M. Bctheuod stated that ho can produce 20,000- waves per second, so that his invention would make tho science of wireless telephony applicable to commercial v;ork; . ■■ English firms of electricnl engineers lmd l>ppn"so" struck with tho magnitude of M. iHlimod's researches, Mr. Buckelton added that negotiations were now proceeding to form' n joint English and French company to give tho inventions effect in commercial us".