A REMARKABLE FEAT.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1923, Page 3

A REMARKABLE FEAT.

—-- SAN KRANVIsI O. '2C>. For the liist time in history tite radio Inis heen employe-! to entry across the winds of lhe Pacific Ocean a pliotm graph, fur a picture ol Ihe ruins of the American Embassy at Tokyo "as sent fiom iiavvaii to San T innoi.-i-o. the I'ii-I.nto having been received a: Honolulu via the I 'at itie Alai! liner President i'ieiee. ii lid at om-c- prepared for trait-mission to San T t aiicisi-o. I lie fed was made possible by the assistance -d -Hie Radio Corporation of A itii-rii-a and the eo-operat ion ol the ollieial' in San r'rami sen and Honolulu. Telegraph w itv- have been Used to send I ii-t 111 es. hut neve; hefioe Ini'- wireh-.-s trau-ini-'i'm of a teiopiwi egr.iv-T been attempted, yel litis lir.-t alteti'| I was A genuine, silc'ess. The venture wa>. made practical hy the t'emat l-.rdile arc'll':',' y and eed <d the lug it power'"! re-, n ing and G'atismitting apped'dits t:t the San I- rancisc* and Iloiiuinhi serve e o! the tadio eoiporat ion. a eoiieeril. "hi'T'. it will recalled, was t |,e i\t-t to Tgnrderst the news to the outside world oi the Japanese cataclysm. Iltrough one of its men pie!,ing up a mes-age Iroin l' ! mioka in Japan. In the transmission of this first pietine tlirottgli the air. e|e-ti ieal machinery made if possthb- io M .|, | the 111,--sage at tile rate of 160 woids a minute without the possibility of error in receipt.- or transmission. No cjfoi : was lead.' to set a reeu.d ior speed in sending this picture. Tie- |.holograph was placed in the tele):liotogl'avei' at 3.19. ami the code was roliipleted at 9.30. Wireless transmission was started nt 6.12. (iiel it took just thirty minutes to deliver 11 o' entire cede nn -smm in halt Francisco. | u sending, the eude message was sent tht'oiigli the Ki'unsclimidt pet lerator. from which the tape was led into a Wheal stum- I ruU'liiitier ami shot into the ether llnougii the Radio ( n'p.or:'t ion's tratt'iiiitting station at Kahttku. thirty-seven miles from IIo„"!uln. from ti-.er,- iraveliimr with the speed of I‘«£lit the wings of 17.00(1 metre waves. •|'l,,. dots and dashes of the cede naesoil t lll'ougll the receiving -tel ien T» San Eraln is-o. ami were then decoded l, v aut nmat ie recording machine, devoiiip: d and perfected hy the Rad'" ( orporation for fast at givat distances. A titty mciul arm. working at s;eed and accuracy, recorded the dot's and dadtes on paper tape pa-sing in Iron I of an expert operator. «h» t ype(l the mc-suge are,! made it ready for delivery. . , 'Pile picture was printed m the Sun l-’raneisei) "Clirtmielc." c.venng a lu.llpnge. and ii I"-" el «he tutus, with two decrepit Japanese figures stpiatung j,, foreground, and win shrubbery in Hie rear.