Show OCEAN TELEGRAPHY I Edison Has Invented a System form This Purpose NO WIRES WILL BE EMPLOYED It IB Through the Air the Instruments Being Placed lllfjh Ships can Communicate Thirty Miles Off Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK Jan 15Thomas A Edison has perfected and patented another wonderful won-derful tiectrical invention I is one that is intended not only to further the1nt rest of commerce but TO PROTECT HUMAN LIFE AT SEA I Is in substance a system by which telegraphic tele-graphic communication can be carried on between ships at sea between ships and I the shore and between distant points on land The most remarkable part of it all is that this intercommunication can be main tamed absolutely without the use of wires or cables Here is ono of the ways in which the invention will work Suppose Sips that sail the seas are fitted with the proper apparatus An ocean greyhound the City of Paris saybecomes disabled at sea > NOT A SAIL IS IS SIGHT An operator skilled in the transmission of Morse characters manipulates a key located lo-cated for instance in the chart room Away below the horizon is another ship soar so-ar that not oven her topmasts are visible The Morse signals are heard on the other ship and answered The disabled ship gives her position and the other speeds to her aid The other ship might be a small bark or brig proceeding under sail ana incapable in-capable of rendering aid In such a case which the bark or brig would sound her signals WOULD BE HEARD BT ANY SHIP within a radius of say thirty miles Then they might be heard by another sailing ship also too small and too far away to give the assistance required but she in turn would begin signalling covering another radius ot thirty miles The signals might pass along to half a dozen ships before be-fore they reached one large enough to aid bo big a vessel as the City of ParIs Whoa they did reach one however she would reply re-ply that she would go to the disabled vessels assistance The word of cheer would be passed back from ship to ship until it reached the City of ParIs again COLLISIONS WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE Every ship within a radius of thirty miles would be able to tell each other who what and where they were Ships out of sight of each other at sea could speak and ask to be reported There are innumeraole other examples that might be used to explain the way the invention will work THE PRINCIPLE INVOLVED is that of induction In his specifications fled at the patent office in Washington Mr Edison says I have discovered that i a sufficient elevation be obtained to overcome over-come tne curvature of the earths surface and to produce the minimum of the earths absorption eli dna telegraphing or signal ing between distant points can be carried carred on by induction WITHOUT THE USE OF WIRES connecting such distant points This discovery dis-covery is especially applicable to telegraph ing across bodies of water thus avoiding the use of submarine cables or communicating communi-cating between vessels at sea or between vessels at sea and points on the land But it is also applicable to electric communication communica-tion between distant points on laud it being necessary however on land with the exception of communication over nnAn JL alnC tn IULLLLLC in na tue QIQ nI 1 UltU yiiurm LUiuuieu3eiuu eiuvnuuii in order to reduce to the minimum the induction induc-tion absorbing effect of houses tree and elevations in the land itself At sea FROM AN ELEVATION OF A HUNDRED FEET 1 can communicate electrically a great distance dis-tance and since this elevation or one sufficiently suf-ficiently high can be had by utilizing the masts of ships separated at considerable distance and by repeating the signals from ship to ship communication can be established estab-lished between points any distance apart or across THE LARGEST SEAS AND EVEN OCEANS The collision of ships in a fog can be prevented pre-vented by this character of signaling by use of which also the safety of a ship in approaching dangerous coast in foggy weather can be assured In communica ing between points on land poles of great height can be used or captive balloons At the elevated points whether upon the masts of ships upon poles or baloons CONDENSING SURFACES OF METAL or other conductors of electricity are located lo-cated Each condensing surface is con neoted with the ground through the water by an electrical conducting wire I a baloon in New York should be sent up to a groat height equipped with a condenser con-denser and held to the earth by a rope cable in which there was a strand of wire and another similarly equipped should be sent up from London a circuit would be I formed through the earth for transmission I through which messages could be flashed at greater speed than has ever been attained I at-tained by any other system All that is necessary to do is to locate the condensers at a sufficient height to overcome the curvature I cur-vature of the earths surface This is similar simi-lar in many respects to THE TRAIN TELEGRAPH SYSTEM I invented by Mr Edison and now in use on the Lehigh Valley railroad by moving trains and stations and from one train to I 1 another The new invention has boundless I possibilities All that it can accomplish j can as yet only be conjectured by Mr Edison I Edi-son who has unlimited faith in its efficacy |