Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-29 | Page 8 | Time by "Wireless" from Eiffel Tower

TIME BY "WIRELESS" FROM EIFFEL TOWER Paris, "la vllle lumiere the city of light and leading has Just been doing something to confirm itr. title It now undertakes to toll half the world exactly what time It is and to keep all clocks and watch1"? on land and on sea, but especially tho latter, JuBt where they ought to be, to the tenth part of a second. Th Eiffol tower, btlll the highest structme in the world, has been fitted out with a wireless apparatus and put into close communication with the Paris Observatory states the Chicago Record-Herald, The effective radius of action from such a height la over 3,000 miles. As the speed of tho Hort-zlen Hort-zlen waves Involved In' radoactlvity is almost equal to that of light ltso.f. all ships within that distance of the now station can ba reached instantaneously instan-taneously at noon and at midnight and put into possession of the exact chro-nomctric chro-nomctric time The acceptance of this information over a large part of the civilized world is assured a welcome, since the hour of Paris, some ten minutes In advanco of that of London, has lately been made the same as that of the gonerally prevailing Greenwich time Henceforth, sailing shins and steamers steam-ers not only on the North Sea, tho Baltic and Mediterranean, but also over the larger part of the Atlantic, will be able to calculate, not approximately approxi-mately but exactly, tho latitude and lonsltude of their "position The multiplication of wireless stations sta-tions will in the near future enable the surface of the entire globe to bo covered by means of the Hortzien waves and will standardize the chron-ometrical chron-ometrical observations by means of which navigation is successfully prosecuted prose-cuted Thus another great and benc-flclcnt benc-flclcnt advanco is made for this world at large by the application of the lat est discoveries in electrical science. Newark News. no