NEW ZEALAND INVENTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 197, 24 September 1909, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND INVENTIONS.

LONG DfSTAXCE TELEPHONE. FIRE ALARM INDICATOR. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Mr. M. Maloney, of the stair of the local telegraph office and the inventor of a longdistance telephone transmitter, known as the "tandem looseback," left to-day for Sydney en route by the Orient steamer Osterley for England. The transmitter is a device constructed on the principle of the human ear, and it is claimed for it that by its means long-distance telephoning is greatly facilitated, and for ordinary use conversations can be carried on in whispers by persons using - the telephone in crowded rooms where others are talking. It is Mr. Maloney's intention when in England to ascertain whether or not his invention has been forestalled, and, if not, to place it on the European market. '

Mr. Maloney is also taking to Europe ft fire-alarm indicator known as the Ma-loney-Ross fire alarm. John Ross, of the Christchurch telegraph office, who is co-patentee with Mr. Maloney of the telephone transmitter, intends leaving for the United States in about six ■weeks' time in order to place the invention before representatives of the telephone companies in that country.