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Show WIRELESS STATION FOR HIGH SCHOOL I OGDEN - The establishing of a wireless telegraph tele-graph station at the Ogden Hign school will be proposed to the city board of education at the next meet ing by Superintendent John M. Mills, who became Interested In the possibilities possi-bilities of a wireless station at the high school several days ago and with President Hiram Pingree of the board of education, visited F. E. Ber-rett, Ber-rett, 2603 Grant avenue, last nigat Mr. Berrett is an expert operator and has a wireless station at his home. Messrs Mills and Pingree arrived at Mr. Berrett's residence about 8 o'clock and the operator gave them a practical demonstration of the wire less set. He first tried to get into communication with Howard Harris a high school student, with whom he had been talking before the educators came, but while he was calling th boy came into the room When he recognized the school officials, think lng that something was up, he weni out of the room, ran two blocks to his home, and was soon talking through the air with Mr. Berrett. After talking commonplaces for a few minutes, Mr Berrett received the following message: "Is Mr. Mills still there? How is he Impressed with tne wireless we set up?" The message was handed to Mr. Mills and he wrote the following answer. an-swer. "Mr. Howard Harris, your work la good 1 hope we can provide a wireless wire-less at high school for you boys. .1 M, Mills." Mr. Berrett sent the message slow-lv, slow-lv, and most of it was caught by Harris. Har-ris. The principle of wireless telegraphy as explained by .Mr. Berrett, Is: When an electric spark crnshc-from crnshc-from one point to another ncross an air gap it creates an invisible ripple or wave in the air. This wave travels trav-els at the rate of thousands of miles per second, penetrates thick walls, travels around corners, sinks into valleys, val-leys, and rises over the tops oi hills. Naturally, the stronger the electric spark the farther the wave created will travel. When one point of the spark gap is connected to a wire terminating ter-minating in the air, and a wire connecting con-necting the other point of the gap terminates in the ground, this electrical elec-trical wave can be caught miles awaj by means of delicate receiving instruments. instru-ments. !t would be possible, by erecting an aerial a hundred feet long, and a hundred hun-dred and fifty feet high, at the high school, to carry on a conversation svith Pacific coast points The price of the sets varies from $20 up. A complete set, which could send or receive re-ceive Salt Lake messages would cost about $50 Messrs. Mills Hud Pingree were pleabed with the demonstration and Principal Henry Peterson of the lngb school said this morning that a wireless wire-less set would be a welcomed adui-tlon adui-tlon to the equipment of the schooL A number of students at the high school are interested in w in less anU-are anU-are in hopes that the proposal of Superintendent Su-perintendent Mills to the board will be favorably acted upon. When first asked as to what he thought of the feasibility of putting a wireless telegraph station in the high school Supt Mills said that ne would be glad to recommend It as he desired the students to have the advantage ad-vantage of a practical education in every line of work that was possible and that, after thinking the matter over, he was convinced that the establishment es-tablishment of a station at the school would bo a good thing. |
