Show q NEW TO TOi its i a REVOLUTIONIZE i BROADCASTING I Scientists Hail Nail Short Wave I Set Using Mirrors for forU Transmission U By WALLACE TALLACE CARROLL ST. ST MARGARETS MARGARET'S BA BAY Y Eng EnS' i UP UP-A UP A new ultra-short ultra wave radio telephone and telegraph which will Increase broadcasting channels I nine-fold nine was hailed toda today by scientists sd- sd as an Invasion of the no-man's no land of radio The new device Ice which is termed I the ray micro radio was demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated demon demon- successfully yesterday between be between between be- be tween St. St Margarets Margaret's and Calais I Prance France on a wave length of 18 centimeters centimeters centi centi- meters inch inches the lowest I ever utilized in radio Engineers claimed the new radio operating on such a short wave wa length will open approximately approximately mat ly a quarter million new channels chan chan- nels INCH LONG AERIAL The United Press correspondent sitting in an omnibus atop the cliffs cUffs overlooking o the English channel caroled carrIed carried car car- ried oled on a clear conversation with engineers engineers engineers en en- of the International Telephone Telephone Telephone Tele Tele- phone and Telegraph corporation in Calais The conversation was carrIed carried car car- ried Tied over o an aerial less than one inch long Power necessary to transmit the conversation was about one-half one watt which is barely sufficient to light a flashlight bulb The new device which has been named the ray micro-ray radio system will remove the danger of congestion of the air channels for man many years engineers claim and will reduce the cost of radio telephony and telegraphy telegraphy telegraphy tel tel- materially because of the thelow thelow thelow low cost of or operation and the simplicity simplicity sim sim- of the apparatus The Th transmitting and receiving apparatus apparatus apparatus ap ap- ap- ap was sheltered in two temporary ary huts here on a cliff high above the city The complete set is a radical radi radi- radical cal departure in the field Held of radio The lofty antennae and tremendous power to operate the present radios not for the are necessary micro raj MIRRORS l ARE USED The transmitter consists of a combination combination combination com com- of mirrors which cast micro micro mi ml cro rays from a tube similar to the ordinary ordinal radio tube on a straight i line t toward ward the direction of the thc re receiving receiving receiving re- re c station statton Another set of mirrors mirrors mirrors mir mir- at the receiving station picks up the message and concentrates it on the one Inch aerial It is then transformed transformed transformed trans trans- formed into speech by means of a tube To demonstrate possibilities of the device de engineers used it in connection connection tion with the new facsimile transmitter transmitter transmitter trans trans- mitter to broadcast 60 pages paces of printed print print- I ed cd matter per hour from France to England Engineers assert that micro radio I will make possible absolutely secret communications between aircraft ships and land They said it also will willaid willaid aid television by opening suitable new neVI channels |