MARVELS OF WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 536, 1 June 1920, Page 2

MARVELS OF WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

A SET IN MINIATURE.

CHILD CAN WORK IT.

Tha ough a bedroom window ii London recently there came rapid Q* tomatic wireless telephone messages that were being sent out by a Bolshevik operating in Moscow. A Daily Dhronicle representative, who ed to these communications, heard also messages from Hanover and Carnarvon. They were ail received on • new and specially designed machine' l set, which Mr. Powell Rees (brother of Sir J. D. Rees, M.P.), has bonked.' It has been named the Long Range Receiving Set," and its manufacture for amateurs is shortly to be begun in the Old Country the remarkable feature of this set is • that it is all contained in a ftiny box, and is said 'to be so simple in its mecahinsm that a child can-work jt. Its range of capacity can be easily inreased without making it clupsyi The cost of manufacture is omy a x

few povrnds. With three thermwßic valves, wnich may be described in non-technical terms as "magnifiers, messages sent from a distance of thousands of miles can be heafd with great distinctness. Every Sunday, between 3 and 6 and ti and 8 p.m. Mr Rees listens to a telephonic concert in Italy, and telephonic conversation „ from other stations are jegularlfr,, heard. The American stations plainly eadable on this tiny though the atrial usefl is only a Wii 1 ! 85 feet long hung between the U PP®* \ bedroom window and a tree at the bottom of the garden. Mr. Rees has spent some years ii> experimenting in wireless, and is a member of the Wireless Society. Included in his patented achievements are hi*- system « for reducing the space occupied by the apparatus for long wave lengths, ttr"'-.'