WIRELESS WONDERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3508, 10 June 1920, Page 7

WIRELESS WONDERS.

V; PICKING UP I\IESSAGI£S BY UMBRELLA. i .._..... i i it is now possible to Didi 111.’ '4 “"9” 1 less message from any of the big Sm‘ itions within reasonable distailee 111 lljiiglzimi with the air of an ordinary iumhiellzi, a patent pocketbook‘, and ithe telephone, The un1b1'ell:1 will act !as the aerial, the pocket-bool~: contains in miniature ‘reeeivng set. and, of ieoni'.~'e, the telephone must be a high~ ;l'C>'lst‘dllUC, instrument. It lias even !been possible, a Daily i\'ews represengtutive was informed by the inventors .ot' the pocket receiving set, to use an ordinary bedstead as an aerial. You must not expect with this simple :installation to ‘get in wireless touch ; with Paris, Berlin, or Moscow, but if '_vuu want the mild excitement of picking up messages from a home station ;wtihin reasonable distance you must itollow these di‘recti.ons:—T’ake your [umbrella with you and the pocket- . book, select a nice lofty position, and, ; having earthed one corner of the pock-»et-book—say ‘to :1 Waterpipe or something" equally damp and handy——hold _voul'«-1m1l:n'ellu out at arnl’s length. l’l‘here should also be a telephone ;handy, and it would be more convenii sent to use heaclgcar worn by telephone :operators. ‘Having rigged yourself 'out. ‘as a human wireless» station, all fyon have to do is to listen. You ‘trill be as a rock iii a wireless sea, {with invisible waves -of understanding Erunning down the stick of your umE brella. This invention is the discovery lot’ Captain H. de A. Donisthorpe, of low R.l\l. Radio, Ltd., of Chancery ‘l.:lne. \V.C. It is ciainred lfor this ‘poi-hot receiving set that it is comparable in sensitivcness with the most expensive and elaborate tuner on the market. The cost of the pocket-book is about £l.