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Show WIRELESS WILL DETERMINE TIME Authorities Now Able to Reckon to One-hundredth Part of a Second. Paris. France, Oct IS Wireless telegraphy has enabled the French and American authorities to determine deter-mine within the one-hundredth part of a second the difference in time between be-tween Paris and Washington, bul ex poriments are still in progress for the purpose of eliminating all errors. The French government has font a commission to Washington to renew Jointly with the American officers at Arlington the exchange of wireless signals with the Eiffel tower It is composed of Martial Simonln. an astronomer as-tronomer of the Observatorv of Paris. Capt. A Carrier, of tho Colonial Infantry, In-fantry, and Naal Lieutenant Gignon. Prof. Henri Abraham, of the Sorbon-ne. Sorbon-ne. sailed later to Join the parts, with the object of studying with photographic photo-graphic registration wireless signals and experiments in the velocity in the propagation of wireless waves. Later in the year the first party returns to Paris, and will be replaced by Eloi Viennet, an astronomer of the Observatory Obser-vatory of Paris, and P uzeniy, an ensign of th navy who have been working in the Eiffel tower The American Navy Department at the same time will send an astronomer astrono-mer from the Naval Observatory In Washington and one or more officers, with the same objects, to Paris The officers ( both navies will thus work first on one side and then on the other, so as to eliminate as far as possible thp errors arising from the personal equation. The astronomical astronom-ical Instruments used in the observations observa-tions will also bo employed first on one side and then on the other to correct such slight variations as niav bo due to mechanical imperfection. |