MINIATURE "WIRELESS."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 10 September 1907, Page 4

MINIATURE "WIRELESS."

APPARATUS MAY BE CARRIED ON ' A MAX'S BACK. Berlin, July 25. A German engineer named Uehiicke has invented a system of wireless telegraphy for such short distance which can be transported from point to point with remarkable ease and rapidity. . It is expected that the system" will come into general use in connection with militarj* reconnoitring parties, and other similar purposes. Negotiations hare begun for the installation of the system on the trains of one of the principal railway companies in the United States. American railway travellers will thus be able in the near future to transact telegraphic business to receiving stations along the line. The transmitting and receiving apparatus are both fitted in one small case, with a weight of approximately lOOlbs, so that entire station weighs approximately HOlbs. A station can be moved from place to place by three men, and five men are able to erect it ready for use in eight minutes. The cost" of a station is £3OO, and the range of communication about twenty-five miles. The smallest portable wireless telegraphy station hitherto in use is so much heavier that twelve men are required to carry its different parts, while its cost exceeds