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Show , The Wonderful Wireless THE other day a naval officer of the wireless station at Arlington, Va., called the Pearl Harbor Har-bor station in Hawaii, 4.GO0 miles away. The call was at once answered and the operator in Hawaii "in answering called the name of the officer who had made the first call, he recognizing the voice of a friend. Nikola Tesla, hearing of this, .produced a copy of the Electrical World eleven years old, in which he had predicted this very thing. Then he said, in substance, that thiB was but & a beginning, that in a little while longer men would talk to each other all around and through the earth and there would be no mistake, they would send their own pictures along at the same time; that the earth was a vastly better conductor con-ductor than the air and that there was nothing to prevent these conversations or the sending by a man of his picture with his message. This leads up to all kinds of speculation. The sun is perpetually throwing off electricity to his planets. If it Is soon to foe possible for man to talk as face to face with his fellow men on the other side of the earth, and have his voice recognized recog-nized by the friend; if, further, he is going to be able to send his picture for purposes of identification, identifica-tion, how long thereafter before man can strike with his voice a return current to the sun and draw an answer back? If a voice can hold its power for 4,600 miles, why not 93,000,000 miles? If he can send his picture at the same time, why cannot the gentleman (or lady) in the sun-return sun-return his or her picture? That might be easier than to read the return message, for who knows what the language in the sun may be? Wiho knows but it may be Welsh or Russian? But the picture all could understand. How that picture would talce in a movie show! What mysteries it would clear up, could we but get the truth! If a voice and picture can foe sent, why not the picture of a grand opera prima donna and her voice? Or the music of a full orchestra as it is played up close to the place where music was 'bom, The Fire Worshipers worshiped the sun as the source of all life and light, and it was a natural worship. Now that the sun's great agent has been put under partial control foy men, who knows what it may be about to reveal to us? |