WIRELESS WONDERS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 March 1910, Page 3

WIRELESS WONDERS.

[>Elt PRESS ASSOCIATION.! CHRISTCIirRCIL This Day. According to a letter received by a resident of Christchurch from a German friend, the pocket wireless apparatus mentioned in yesterday's cables is an invention of -.lonsignor Ccrebontani. the Papal Nuncio at Munich. The apparatus is a pocket receiver like a large watch, containing a reel of wire, and with it goes a cone encased in a metal receiver which has an indicator on the face. The apparatus is used by uncoiling the wire and fastening it to the highest branch of a tree, connecting it with the receiver. \ The metal cone, is stuck in the ground and is also connected with ■ the receiver. The operator is then j ready to receive messages from ; any wireless station within twenty or thirty miles, his only care being to watch the movements of the needle on the indicator dial, which , points to various letters or signs in accordance with the impulse received from the sending station. The apparatus cannot, of course, be used for the transmission of messages. The letter states that the invention has .already attracted the attention of the German military authorities.