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Show WIREL12SS TELEI'UONli;S.-! II- Which Iliiinnli Voice Are'iOiTIC) llvmlllr Henril TbrnuKlt 'J Sir William Prcccc's wlrelccfc telephone tele-phone experiments, by which It is announced an-nounced it has been possible to hear distinctly n series of taps uied on the Morte principle, has caused great Interest In-terest In the electrical world and has been mode the subject of ft statement hj Dr. Peter Stiens, who has been haid at work fori ears on a system of w lie-less lie-less telephony. In an interview with ftrcprescntathe of the London Central Ncwh Dr. Ktlens bald: "I have read some account of Sir William Wil-liam Prceee's wireless telephone e-pi'ilments, e-pi'ilments, but 1 may eoy that I am not working: " Herzian waves at all. My principle is that of using only ono menus of conduction namely, the earth. 1 simply send electricity through the earth from one npparatus to an-other,ii an-other,ii synipathj with It. No high poles or balloons or nn,vthlnr of that kind is lequirtd for my i Mem, "Sli appaiatus U small and poitnble. Of course. I riinmit, for obvious rea-kiiir, rea-kiiir, just al present tell jou nbnut Its ennbt ruction ami method of use. I have not had no (ippoiluuitj of oxmniniiitf Kir William Pieeee's system, but I see that in the nenspnper accounts all that is claimed for it Is that the users enn hear taps, which, when used as a Mm so system, can In utilicd in the sending' of messages. "Now, from this It would, nppcnr that to lie able to use his invention one must he a telegraph operator or other person per-son umlcrstonding the Morse rode. Of course I don't know what Sir William has in mind for the future, hut I clnim that lij ni, invention not onlj taps, hut the spoken vvouls, Hie sound of the human hu-man voice, can be heard and that at real distances witli excellent results. Soon 1 hope In he In a position to givea scries of piacticnl tlciuoiiKlintious in the presence of electrical experts." Brooklyn ICagle. |