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Show ' -oo IMPORTANT WORK IN RADIO SIGNALS Washington. March B. Important results are expected to tollow the arrival of lour French naval offieer-ami offieer-ami fl Sor bonne professor neXt week in Washington simultaneous with thf lirr.val In Pari. uf a cm M,n,,d.n5 tnni.be, ,,, nien, n ;u.. ,,.,,,., ,,, arrange for an exchange of radio signals sig-nals between the greal Eiffel .owe, and the newly erected navv wireless station ai Arlington, Va The siguala are for the purpose of determining the difference of longitude longi-tude between the two places The superintendent of the naval ob-,iator ob-,iator here proposed the plan of I the exchange as one likely to be of I the greatest value an a base of hydro-graphic, hydro-graphic, coast, military and other surveys sur-veys on this continent and the islands of the gulf of Mexico, the Carribean sea and the Pacific ocean. The French government accepted the proposition prop-osition with enthusiasm, being pioneers pio-neers in the method of exchange of signals between shore stations foi ihe determination of the difference of longitude. |