OPERA BY WIRELESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 368, 20 April 1910, Page 5

OPERA BY WIRELESS.

"CARUSO AUDIBLE 200 MILES . AWAY." From New York on January 10 the Daily Mail's correspondent wrote: — The first season of opera by wireless telephone is announced to begin here this week. On Wednesday night, and on many following nights, everybody within a radius of fifty to seventy-live miles of the Metropolitan Opera House, no matter whether they are in an Atlantic liner on a stormy sea, in an hotel, or their own homes, may enjey the delights if grand opera. Such, at any rate, is the amazing statement of Dr. Lee Deforest, whom I saw last evening busily engaged in fitting up his long-distance raiiiophone on the top of the opera house. "It is now onlv a question of time," the inventor declared, '"for wireless music and theatre performances, lectures and enurch services to be the common possession of -tay-at-homes or travellers at sea." Dr. Defore-t is 'working in conjunction with Mr. Nelly Turner, the inventor of the dictograph, an instrument that picks up tiie smallest sounds or words spoken many feet from the transmit.cr. A number of dictographs have been installed on the stage of the opera house, and wtcs run from them to the radiophone, when the music will be transmitted and sent out broadcast from antenml wires attached to the two masts erccten on the roof. "We are already in a position," declared the inventor, "to deliver operatic music to ever household in New York and the surrounding cities. Next •week the music will he free to all who listen at the wireless receivers for it. It is easv. however, to arrange a wireless telephone so that only subscribers having instruments keyed in a certain way can enjoy the luxury of the radioopera." Dr. Deforest estimates thnt with such antennal wires as are on the roof of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's building the voices of Caruso may he heard within a radius of 200 miles.