Show BRITISH SCIENTIST SEES RADIO CONTROL A OF WORLD I 1 tells of directing transportation by use of wireless london londom under the heading corning coming of the wireless age a british scientist contributes a striking article to a london newspaper in which he predicts that wireless will be used in the near future for directing ships nt at sea train and trolley services brattle control on the road fleets of battleships and aircraft it will be possible he says to direct the path of everything moving on the surface odthe earth not even excepting human beings by means of wireless the initial step in harnessing this his potent and little known force was the establishment somo some weeks ago of a wireless lighthouse on island in the firth of forth ily by means of this lighthouse ships can be directed through the dangerous channels of the firth by wireless so there Is no possibility of their running ashore or being wrecked even on tile the darkest night or in the densest fogs ste steps fj are being taken in conjunction with the british board of trade and the meteorological office to internationalize wireless direction of ships it at sen at the present moment thero there la Is lying in the port of london a ship that has been specialty specially fitted with powerful wireless receiving sets to give demonstrations of this new method of navigation in nil III the principal ports of the world setting out from london this missionary ship will sall sail for china via the mediterranean indian ocean and the straits and thence on to north and south america and back across the atlantic to europe and south africa giving demonstrations at every big port en route the most ambitious effort however will be a cross atlantic airplane flight which Is to be mado made late in the summer the machine will carry both pilot and observer but their attentions will be confined to the actual flying side setting out from newfoundland tor for the first miles of its flight the airplane will be directed by tho the glace giaco bay wireless Bt atlon then it will be picked up and navigated by a wireless lightship cruising in mid ocean to a point where control will be transmitted to ongar the big operating station in this country the whole 2000 miles of flight will be directed by wireless |