| Show i I SJ S. S THOUSAND WORDS A MINUTE BY NEW WIRELESS Worlds World's Biggest Plant Wonder Wonder Wonder Won- Won der of Electric Development Development Develop Develop- ment in This Age I It Is not so 50 very long ago since Jim the village telegraph operator learned to take twenty words a minute This stamped Jim as an expert in his day and soon he was in the Hoyt's Hoyt s Corners Corner station of the valley railroad at a aMI- aMI salary salary sal sal- ary of 35 55 5 a month That was Jim Jims Jim's s fu future fu- fu ture From the village operator he went to the big station and from there thereto to the trainmasters trainmaster's s office Many of our noted railroad presidents rose from Jim Jims Jim's s humble station and many of us have at atone one time or another toyed with the keys and wondered what kind of ears Jim had to make sense out of 01 the strange clicks which come in over the wire Then came the dawn of the wireless age only a few y years ears back Remember the sensation when somebody announced announced announced an an- that wires were not needed to record the dots dashes ana one silences silences' Then on came Marconi and Carty and a a. number of or f others and soon roon we had trans Atlantic communication by wireless History repeated itself for the Jims of another generation began all ail over to do what Jim did as a boy They bought boy radio outfits and rigged up wireless wireless wireless wire wire- less apparatus on roofs roots and were again a nation of operators The war I Interrupted all this amateurish delight i and all hands turned in to use wireless as a practical means of communication I It was greatly improved and much was learned from fields or foreign development develop develop- ment Now comes the Wireless wave words at the rate of 1000 per minute Try to talk a. a thousand words a minute see if you come nearer fifty than you yu OU do to one hundred No human being can receive mes message age at the rate ate of 01 a thousand words per minute They had added some five ten or fifteen fifteen fit fit- teen to Jims Jim's record of twenty-five twenty but that Is the limit of human capacity In a great plain on Long Island near I New York they are going to build a I plant on a plot ten miles square When I completed the work will cost ten million mil mil- I I lion dollars It will be possible to sigr sig- sig r n 1 round the world from this plant It will be five times as powerful as the I famous station I at Nauen or 01 the French station at Bordeaux The General Electric RIco RIco- company of Schenectady which designed designed de de- de signed much o of the apparatus Is also credited with the receiving instrument I II I which makes possible the record of 1000 words a minute I The instrument is partly a photographic photographic photographic photo photo- graphic apparatus A light weight mirror mir mir- rot flutters In electro magnetic electro tune with the minute electric impulses coming from the big steel towers out in the field The oscillations vary Just as Jim used to vary his dots and dashes The mirror then reflects a beam o of light on a movIng ing sensitized tape The tape goes through a developing fluid and then just justas I as on a stock brokers broker's s tape you read of oft off the message There is a word W in dots and dashes dashe on every inch of the th thee tare The receiving operator can read this message at the rate of 50 to words a minutes I The great value of this new invention is that it will allow a great number of I messages mE to be sent during the day when j I conditions are best suited for wireless This Is between 4 and 10 I o'clock in the morning A A. new electric I marvel has been added to the category of wonder achievements I |
