THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1906. WIRELESS TELEPHONING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8318, 22 December 1906, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1906. WIRELESS TELEPHONING.

The cable message published on Thursday morning recording another success in wireless telephoning is a reminder that work in this branch of progress, has been rather overshado*wedsby'the more important wireless telegraphy. 1 ,A recent London Daily Mail'has an interview with M. Louis 'Maiche, a Frenchman, who claims to be the inventor of wireless telephoning. According, to his account, M. Maiche was investigating wireless telegraphy as far back as 1867, and in 1893, some time before the wonders of wireless communication impressed the popular imagination, exchanged a conversation through a wireless telephone at a distance of' thirty yards. Before long he established communication by telephone between two points five miles apart, using the earth as a conductor, and afterwards heard a conversation between Ajaccio, in Corsica, and Toulon, 185 miles apart, the sea being the conductor. The apparatus shown to the interviewer consisted of a wooden frame into which were wound insulated coils of wire, communicating with an ordinary telephone receiver, and the interviewer says that it answered its purpose admirably. He was also shown a small apparatus for short distances, small enough to go into the pocket. Leaving his visitor in the laboratory, M. Maiche went outside and spoke into a similar instrument, and the interviewer, on turning in the right direction, could hear quite distinctly what was said. "You can appreciate now the importance of my invention, " said M. Maiche, "and the great progress I have made. Imagine two steamers steaming through a fog; with my little apparatus the captains can tell at any moment the direction the other ship is taking. In case of an accident to a submarine my apparatus would enable the crew in danger to communicate with the

convoying tug without fearing the breaking of a line, as in the case of a telephone buoy. Miners entombed after a disaster like that at Courrieres could communicate with the rescue party. Two army corps making a night attack could keep in constant touch without risk of interruption. The ordinary citizen could have it in his dining-room, and would no longer be dependent on the vagaries of the telephone exchange." Nothing is said about privacy, and we imagine that the ordinary person will want to be assured that there is no danger of his private message going astray before he has a wireless telephone in his house. It is claimed that, while Marconi is obliged to use antennae for the diffusion of the i Hertizen waves, M. Maiche's ap- ! paratus transforms ordinary elec- | tricity into vibrations without the use of antennae.