AERIAL TELEGRAPHY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 135, 7 June 1879, Page 5

AERIAL TELEGRAPHY.

Professor Loomis, of Washington, is experimenting in. the mountains' of West Virginia to demonstrate what be cal la aerial telegraphy, which is baaed oa the theory that at certain elevations there is a natural electric current, by taking advantage of which wires may he wholly dispensed; with. It is said that he has telegraphed aa far aa eleven miles by means of kites flown with copper wire. When the kites reached tha aames altitude or got ioio the same current, communication by means of an instrument similar to the Morse instrument was easy and perfect, but ceased as soon .as, one of the kites was lowered. He had built towers on hills about twenty miles apart, and from the tops of them run up sleei.rods into tba region, of' "'ihai' elebtrip' " carrenta *' /j'Tlia statement js made tha,! . in* this wayj without any wire j '.'h.'e 'faa "been-'ajble 3'6 keep up telegraphic epmniu nioatioa ifo«| months at a: time.. Af^heavy,, atoroi,! however, preyeoted cotamunicatibn for a Hme,, probably disarranging the, cur-^ rept. ' (; In,^a r^aen'e; letter .to.^b^"^^^^!? Itoomis aanouacad that lie had teoeaily

discovered that the telephone coiild b6" used for this method, of comoiuoioation as we'll aa telegrßpliic' ioatfadiibnts and Uhafc of late ha had dope all hia .talking wuli jiis ( asaiataii t,' .it ja.&nly[ ' iniiht JL&ky., b^ it 7(ejep^pne t '*'^|i)9/\'cpiiQeid'(io^. '{ieiiof^ afci-lai " only. ', ; Ha " claim's ' 'tW t' VheJ !J 'iiij^ teteg rapU across °tjxe . %&/ w i tlib ti t (dtmif" iWjrea than .'those J neceVßafjr'.to,j;eac'6 u tifi^ : ieievalion of ihe cun4n(^ "Thi^laiS^^ 1 i Professor Lopmis^ 1 be'lodga i"'tjb .t^ie^iifer jof Veinairkable ' aiß^wjes; i nb l t lu Wl/ ! (2P !fnonatrated'~> a i very' largj^ 1 class ~ 'iri r I which a tad enis of scTe6cf B te ! woi'Slfi^