Show I LIGHTING WITHOUT WIRES WIES I Remarkable Experiment of Dr Fred Pred Frederick Frederick erick H a Union I Pacific Electrician Omaha Neb eb May Ma Ia M Lightning byI by I electricity without the use nee of wires res was successfully sU accomplished d by Dr Freder Frederick ick H II at the electrical exposition e now In hi progress at the Omaha Oba auditorium I The doctor is with the Union Pacific as experimental electrician and Is working on a cab wireless signal fer for the control of trains This ia is to be worked in connection connection connection tion with the block signal system One year ago alO in the Pacific shop in Omaha Dr constructed an electric truck to travel about the yards by b wireless This truck te is started by b wireless and goes four speeds ahead and four speeds back without any power pew r I than the wireless By an apparatus somewhat similar to that used with the I truck the switch at the Omaha auditor auditorium turn ium is opened and closed The lighting of the auditorium system I is beyond the power paler of any person to ex explain explain plain Through the Uti courtesy courtes of Colonel Glassford at Fort Omaha the wireless apparatus there Is IB put In operation Then I at the auditorium six mUss away by an instrument constructed by Dr the electric waves are gathered brought into the auditorium where after the elec dee electric trie power from the lighting plant has ha been out out they pass to the switch switchboard switchboard board and out over Oler the wires and through the hundreds of lamps This wireless power can cn be thrown on or off simply by pushing a button In the little machine constructed by the doctor doc tor |