WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10253, 1 June 1911, Page 7

WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

COMMUNICATION WITH A MOVING TRAIN. The first "'l'ailoplione'" installation for wireless inductive telephony and .signalling to and from moving trains was inaugurated at Stratford-oai-Avon recently. The new system is the invention of Mr H. Von Kawnar. It has. been fitted to one of the trains of the Stratford-on-Avon and Midland 'Junction Railway, and messages were despatched from and received at t'he telephone box fitted in the train travelling (between Stratford''and Ettrington.

Tlie system primarily consists of two large frames of electric wires, one for receiving and rthe other for sending messages, which are fixed to the railway carriage. Alongside the line, at a. distance of several feet away, runs a. wire, connected with the signal boxes. There is no meehlaniieal ■connection between the wire 'and the train, the communication being inductive. It is hoped ultimately to link up the. signal boxes and stations wiith. the general telegraph and telephone systems, and films to imiake it possible to send and receive telegrams anJcl telephone messages to and from the train.

Miss Marie. Oorelli. was invited to inaugurate the new system, and for t!hn.s 'purpose an instrument was fitted up in a marquee outside the railway station. Mr Kramer explained that the system had been tested at Brighton, but that was only along three or four miles, whilst this one was along ten and a half miles of railway.

The Mayor then went to the train, Whfcii was standing in tiho station, and Miss Marie Oorelli, speaking to Mm from the box in the marquee, said: "I send good wishes for the ■success of the railophone. I hope that all railway companies will quickly adopt Mr Kramer's wonderful invention, which means the complete safety of the passengers and the more perfect control of railway traffic. I am very pleased to inaugurate what I believe will prove a groat boon to the travelling world." The Mayor, speaking from thetrain, congratulated Miss Oorelli upon being the first to send a message over the railophoiio. Both Miss Corelli and the Mayor afterwards isaid that tiliey heard the messages distinctiv.

A number of newspaper represent■atweu and others were afterwards conveyed by the train from Strat-ford-on-Avon several miles along the railway, and en route messages were sent to and .received from the temporary office in the marquee.