NEW SCOPE FOR WIRELESS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4335, 28 October 1921, Page 2

NEW SCOPE FOR WIRELESS.

fresh victory has been achieved by French science,, says the Matin. If it had been forecasted a few years, or even a few months, ago that the words, one writes could ati the same moment be read in America, as if by someone looking over one’s shoulder, in the very shape in which the pen traces them; if it had been forecasted that a diplomatip signature, for example, could be appended to a treaty by wireless, or that a treaty or cheque could be signed 8000 miles away, the reply would have been that one spoke of a, fairy tale. Yet- all this is now actually possible. The inventor is Mr Belin, The following autographed lines were received yesterday from America: “The New York Times’ congratulations to Le Matin upon this new method of wireless transmission.” This was transmitted in a few minutes by wireless without the assistance of any cable. “The future thus opened by this new .triumph of a French idea is unbounded,” adds the Matin. “Not only will there be no impossibility as to the transmission of judicial documents, autograph manuscripts, de* signs, and works of art, not 'only can one foresee that the signatures can thus be immediately attached 1 Jo treaties and conventions when they are agreed to; but fresh guarantees are afforded by their autographed transmission. “The speed of transmission, too, should be increased, fpr, whilst currents in the earth or atmospheric conditions may render Morse signals illegible and necessitate retransmission, that is not the case with the Belin messages, in which interfering currents can only render the letters .a little irregular without altering their form.”