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Wireless War Kites.

KAISER'S SECRET TRIALS OF A NEW INVENTION.

In tl>e presence of the Kaiser some interesting experiments took place in the Baltic recently with a newlydiscovered method of wireless: telegraphy by means of kites. The inventor is a German American professor, at present residing at Harve, who has for a long time past been in communication with the German naval authorities, and has now displayed the new invention to the Emperor personally. Naturally the strictest secrecy is observed regarding the whole matter and every sailor to whom the new apparatus was shown was compcfled to take an oath not to speak of the device.

At the operations, which were carried out about a mile from the shore seven kites were flown on copper wires to a height of from ten to twelve thousand feet. The experiments were partly made from the Kaiser's dispatch boat Sleipner, travelling at the rate of thirty sea miles an hour, and several languages were employed. It is possible to employ the system over the greatest distances without affecting any other wireless telegraphy station.

The form of the kites used is that of two cubes side by side. The patent will be acquired for a large Sum by the German Navy. His Majesty expressed the greatest 'interest in the new invention.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 208, 6 September 1904, Page 4

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Wireless War Kites. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 208, 6 September 1904, Page 4

Wireless War Kites. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 208, 6 September 1904, Page 4

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