Davis County Clipper | 1924-03-28 | Page 6 | Shortest Electric Wave is Only Ten Meters Long

shortest electric wave Is only ten meters long complete electric waves only ten meters long believed to be among the shortest ever produced have been developed by an electric oscillator invented by J P barton a sophomore student at the university of minnesota the electrical engineering debirt ment la Is beginning experiments to determine whether tills this current Is practicable in radio communication the waves compare with ordinary lengths of from to meters used in radio communication while wave lengths in power transmission are frequently several thousand miles long one advantage ot of the short waves is that they can be used more effectively in classroom demonstration than longer ones can the burton oscillator generates pronounced standing current so that at one point on a wire several amperes are measured while a few feet away no current Is perceptible another of its freaks is that short circuits on the wire do not seem to affect it waves from the new oscillator have the unusually high frequency of 30 cycles per second